[HN Gopher] A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques
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       A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques
        
       Author : AgrMohit
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2023-04-26 15:57 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | Proven wrote:
       | 1) Shadow banning and similar techniques employed by Big Tech
       | (but also her eon HN) should be added
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       | 2) Government explicit and implicit (bullshit "laws" and such)
       | interference should have its own section
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       | 3) Domain name seizures: this could become a serious issue
       | worldwide. See https://reclaimthenet.org/new-proposals-would-let-
       | government...
        
       | breck wrote:
       | Copyright originated in 1557 as a tool of censorship. ^1
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       | [1]
       | https://www.copyrighthistory.org/cam/commentary/uk_1557/uk_1...
        
       | breck wrote:
       | "A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques" then on the very
       | first page is a big "Copyright Notice...All rights reserved.".
       | 
       | Copyright _is_ censorship. The most widespread form of it.
       | Sometimes I feel like I 'm living in Westworld: "Doesn't look
       | like anything to me."
        
       | causi wrote:
       | Really ought to be named "A survey of Worldwide Electronic
       | Censorship Techniques". The article doesn't address where most
       | censorship takes place, at the propaganda and legal levels.
        
         | __jambo wrote:
         | what are "legal levels"?
        
           | causi wrote:
           | In some places men from the government will show up at your
           | house to punish you for going online and saying gamer words.
        
             | flangola7 wrote:
             | Gamer words? "I need more diamond ore?"
        
               | causi wrote:
               | Curses, slurs, etc.
        
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