, 2006-03-13
A government's position on censorship used to protect its citizenry is dictated by who they are. The well-popularized censorship of Internet content in China by Google and other big players, and criticism of this by the U.S. government, is really just the tip of the iceburg.
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Human rights and wrongs online
2006-03-14
Anonymous (2 replies)
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Take for instance DMCA/COPA. These are examples of ill-conceived censorship that severely harms individuals' rights without anywhere near a substantive gain in the objective they're trying to achieve (copyright protection, protecting children, etc.)
China's censorship is perceived as "bad" because even the political sheep of the world can see that China has no objective other than state preservation. In reality, most of the censorship laws in the United States are still written in a *very bad* fashion and have, at their center, information control, rather than protecting people.
The CDA, COPA and DMCA are three of the major examples. Bad laws written for the "purpose" of protecting someone from something but intentionally written to be so broad as to deny people from making legal, constitutionally-protected uses of the information they govern.
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