Effortless English - 26.3 Ms censorship Vocabulary (AJ Hoge)
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The impulse to protect our children is universal and for so long now filtering or blocking certain Internet sites has been a part of that. There are strong justifications for this, of course. While the Internet is a valuable tool for both information and communication, there is much that it offers is of no value to anyone and considerable potential harm. Why would we want our children or anyone for that matter to be exposed to sites that could confuse them morally or make them potential victims of stalking or exploitation? There are horror stories told worldwide about young people who have become the victims of cyber bullying, which in some extreme cases has cost them their lives. Can we not reap the benefits of Internet technology without allowing these potentially devastating influences? The problem is not with the concept of protecting our children because, of course, that is our job but in the fact that our attempts at protection may come at the cost of a canny ability to navigate todays technological world, which for better or for worse we have entered. Two decades ago, the idea that practically every school child would have easy access to a mobile phone with all the features of a powerful computer and media outlet would have seemed laughable. Today this is a reality. Sometimes it seems that children are actually the most adept at using new technology! Have you ever noticed how youth under the age of 20 seldom need to consult a manual to operate their smart devices? They just pick them up and seem to know instantly what to do with them. They have, potentially, more power to connect and find information than any other generation of young people has ever had. In light of this, our attempts to control that information are clumsy and backward. Given that the tide of information is not only at our door but has engulfed us, starting with the young generation, would it not be best if we tried to ensure that they know how to swim? The energy that they may even now be spending in devising ways to overcome firewalls may better be devoted to finding their way in the sea of information. Given that all cell phones now come with photo and digital capabilities, it is time for young people to develop their own sense and discretion about what information they choose to share and with whom. Similarly, viewing content of a questionable moral or political nature will not corrupt people who have their own strong values and sense of identity, but they must be taught these values in the context of all that they may encounter. Shelter them too much, and they will not have the capacity to deal with the influx of information that will, I believe, inevitably make its way to them, by legal means or otherwise. We did not ask to be born in this time when the Internet permeates our lives as a largely lawless and ungovernable frontier. But since we are living in these times and our children will never know a world without Internet technology, we have to get to know the lay of the land and develop our own defenses. I believe that this is best done on the level of the individual or family, as government censorship is clumsy, heavy-handed and unable to move with the times. By learning to protect ourselves and our children on an individual level, we can come out of it stronger and as better informed citizens of our country, our world and our time.
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A newly released report charges that a Canadian companys technology is playing a central role in facilitating Internet censorship in Pakistan.
According to a report released Thursday by the Citizen Lab, a digital media and human rights research centre at the University of Torontos Munk School of Global Affairs, the Canadian content filtering company Netsweeper is working with Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd. (PTCL), the largest telecom firm in the country. PTCL is majority-owned by the government of Pakistan.
Netsweeper technology is being implemented in Pakistan on PTCL for purposes of political and social filtering, including websites of secessionist movements, sensitive religious topics, and independent media, the report said.
The filtering includes blocking sites related to Balochi and Sindhi national self-determination activists, as well as Pashtun secessionism, it added. In addition, the report stated, major websites, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, have also been blocked when such content shows up on the sites.
The report, titled O Pakistan, We Stand On Guard For Thee, was produced in partnership with Bytes For All, a Pakistani human-rights organization.
In many parts of the world, content filtering software is used by Internet service providers to block a variety of websites, whose content can include pornographic, politically sensitive or otherwise controversial content. The Citizen Labs previous research efforts have highlighted several cases in which Western filtering companies have provided technology to regimes with troubling human rights records.
Netsweeper, which is based in Guelph, Ont., did not respond to calls and e-mails for comment.
The list of blocked sites collected by the researchers includes a number of services that allow users to surf the web anonymously. Websites critical of Islam also featured heavily on the list of blocked sites, as did pornographic sites. A U.S. Air Force academy site was also blocked, as was the Wikipedia entry for Gabriel, the angel of the Abrahamic religions.
Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab, said that, in previous years, it was much easier to determine which companies were aiding in censorship efforts around the world. This is in part because the access denied pages that would pop up when a user tried to visit prohibited sites would usually contain the name or logo of the company providing the censorship software. However in recent years, as pressure mounted on such companies to stop working with repressive regimes, many of the same pages now offer no identifying informationabout the companies providing the censorship technology.
In some cases, the ISPs doing the blocking have sought to disguise the practice by redirecting users to pages that appear to show the website is simply unavailable, rather than deliberately blocked. For example, a user might be directed to a 404 error page, indicating the site was not found.
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