Censorship trap | Lkhagva Erdene | TEDxUlaanbaatar
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Guardians of the Galaxy | Unnecessary Censorship | Censored Parody Video
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Censorship In The Game Industry
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With over seven billion people on the planet and approximately 40% of them online, the internet is one of the most important resources to protect, but is it completely protected? We've all heard about bugs like Shellshock and the 512k router problem, but are there other menaces that could bring down the worldwide web?
"While there are extreme scenarios like natural disasters and terrorist attacks that can cause disruption to the web, it is actually far more commonplace to see the internet fall foul due to shortcomings with routine maintenance and operations, such as hardware upgrades," says Mike Palladino, director of IP infrastructure and operations at internet hosting company Internap in Atlanta, US. Palladino is talking about widely-deployed, older routers hitting their default 512k routing table limit, a problem that has this year seen websites and networks knocked down.
It's time to move to IPv6
At around 500,000 routes a figure that's increasing by around 1,000 routes per week the growth of the global internet routing table shows no signs of slowing. "It's putting many organisations on a collision course with network instability over the coming months and years as millions of legacy routers hit their physical limits," thinks Palladino. "What makes the problem even more challenging is that companies don't want the headache of fully migrating to IPv6, so they are trying to squeeze as much IPv4 out of the remaining allocations as possible, which is only adding to the inflation of the routing table."
Many companies are getting caught off guard, Palladino believes, and smaller enterprises in particular could learn some very painful lessons.
This is the real baddie. "Some of the largest instances of internet outages weren't caused by natural disasters or terrorist attacks, but rather government censorship," says Brian Chappell, Director, Technical Services EMEAI & APAC at the Leeds office of BeyondTrust.
There are theoretical threats such as the Kremlin's plans to take control of the .ru domain and take Russia off the global internet during an 'emergency' and there are real problems caused by governments, such as the 'great firewall' in China. The latter's latest effort is Green Dam, a piece of web censorship software that will soon be pre-installed inside every computer sold in China.
The NSA might be monitoring, but other governments actively switch off the internet
That, and Edward Snowden's NSA online surveillance revelations, are mere asides in the fight against governments who think it is their right to switch the internet on and off. Censorship by the Chinese government was thought to be behind an internet outage in January that severed access to the web for hundreds of millions of people, while governments in both Libya and Egypt effectively banned the internet during the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.
And who can forget the almost comical stance of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called social media "the worst menace to society" before banning it in April? Luckily, the country's constitutional court overturned the ban after two weeks. However, the ban had an unexpected consequence. "When the Turkish prime minister banned Twitter, tweets about the ban and from Turkey increased significantly," says Dinah Alobeid at the New York office of analyst company Brandwatch.
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Protesters at the Save Our ABC rally at Melbournes Federation Square. Photograph: AAP
The Coalitions cuts to the ABC and SBS are ripping at the heart of vital public institutions, federal opposition leader, Bill Shorten, says.
He also told a Save Our ABC rally at Melbournes Federation Square on Sunday that Australians are rightly angered by the budget cuts in breach of Tony Abbotts pre-election promise.
This is not a government of competition this is a government of censorship, Shorten said.
This is a government of savages, ripping at the heart of our national institution.
They are launching a brutal attack despite promising in the clearest, most unambiguous language, there will be no cuts to the ABC.
Shorten said the public broadcasters reflected our national identity ... our national soul and Australians would need to fight to have the cuts reversed.
Our ABC has always been here for us. It is now time for us to be there for the ABC, he said.
The crowd was told the governments move to slash $254m from the ABCs budget over five years would amount to 500 ABC staff losing their jobs and more facing insecure employment via casual or part-time work.
Some TV shows and local news bulletins would be discontinued, websites and web services would be shut down and production facilities centralised away from regional areas.
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Tony Abbott leads 'a government of censorship', Bill Shorten tells ABC rally