[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.".
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| 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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