Russia intends to expose internet censorship

Daily Mail, a British tabloid wrote that Russia intends to expose Internet censorship, but at a UN conference that is going to be held in December in Dubai, the United States will try to disrupt this plans. Putin has long advocated the establishment of centralized control over the Internet, but the Americans are going to block this proposal.

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Concerns that this will strike a powerful tool for sharing information, job search and organization of the revolution remain. Russia proposed an amendment that would allow to suppress political opposition. International Telecommunication Union (ITU) takes this decisions on consensus. The U.S. will try to carry out the preliminary meetings before the conference to support their position. Perhaps the UN and ITU want to take away the control over the information from the nongovernmental organizations, establishing rules and standards.

For all States Members , academic institutions and the private sector the preparatory process is opened. Most of them fear that Putin will use his close relations with the ITU General Secretary Hamadoun Toure, to establish a censorship over the Internet. Republican Roger McDowell, a member of the Federal Communications Commission said at a hearing in Congress that it was not a direct threat to freedom of the Internet, this expression is a cunning extension of intergovernmental mandate.

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Censorship in Google inevitable

Western governments, including the United States, intensifying their efforts to censor searches on the Internet and videos YouTube, says transparency report (a report on transparency), published by Google.

Again About Censorship in Chinese Internet

Today I came across a rare category of research online space. Much of this kind of work for a very narrow issue and gives little idea of ​​how the whole is arranged or that the Internet community. In today's Tehnosrede will talk about the most important "technology" of the Internet - censorship - in relation to its Chinese segment. The quotes here emphasize the fact that we have in mind the social technology of forming the society (or the contrary, it prevents the changes). 


Article Harvard researchers entitled "How China censors allow criticism of the government, but drowns out the collective action" . Chinese Internet because of the language barrier to a large extent - terra incognita, and it is useful to say a few words about how it differs from Western and Russian (which are generally organized in a similar way). 

The Government of Bahrain tightening media censorship

Authorities arrest those who disagree with the regime.

The Bahrain Information Minister Sameera Rajab stated that the government is preparing a series of laws aimed at fighting with the "incorrect" mass media using.

Note that in Bahrain, as well as in some other countries in the region, in response to protests related to the "Arab Spring" were tightened state censorship.

In connection with the adoption of tougher measures, the Minister Rajab said: "Those who call themselves activists in the struggle for freedom of Bahrain, distorting the real situation in the country. They claim that the government gives in to torture everyone who disagreed with the regime and that the Security Service tracks the opposition. Such anti-government activists spread their appeals through the media and social networks. So this can not be continued. The law must be above of everything".

The adoption of tougher measures justifies the existence of censorship.

However, as noted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a law regulating the new rules of government censorship, is not yet in force, but the government has already begun the persecution of dissenters. On 6 June this year, was detained Bahraini Nabeel Rajab (Nabeel Rajab) on charges of anti-government statements on the networking site Twitter.

According to the civil services Rajab posted in his account on Twitter a message in which he called on acting Prime Minister to resign voluntarily.

Rajab attorney said that the government had no right to detain his client, as the Criminal Procedure Code provides for the arrest of Bahrain only in those cases, if a person is suspected of committing a felony. For the offense committed by his client, according to a lawyer, Rajab were required to pay a fine.

Note that this is the second Nabeel Rajab arrest in the past few months. In May, he was arrested on charges of distributing anti-government statements on Twitter. Then Rajab was released on bail.

Source: http://www.securitylab.ru/news/425986.php

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China has blocked web-search for "repression in Tiananmen Square"

Analysts point out that censorship of any conversations on the subject of repression is very important for Beijing this year in connection with the forthcoming elections in the state.

Censorship and Islam

In the Arab world there are a number of restrictions and prohibitions that seem to be wild and incomprehensible. And they are connected not only with religion, but also the culture and traditions of these peoples. And many things we are familiar with you, for them under complete prohibition. For example, any advertised in these countries, the foreign goods have been fully adapted to local cultural and religious framework. Force. No options.
For example, the Crusaders during the Crusades left a wound in the psychology of the Arabs, so far the image of the cross is completely forbidden. Even the International Red Cross working there under the sign of the red crescent.

GOOGLE: POLITICAL CENSORSHIP HAS INCREASED ALARMINGLY

Google said the strengthening of censorship on the Internet over the last six months. A serious concern is the increase in the number of requests for removal of the political content of the governments of Western democracies, which are rarely associated with censorship.