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Green Dam Youth Escort – Internet Censorship in the People’s Republic of China

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Green Dam Youth Escort Internet Censorship in the Peoples Republic of China @ CyberWar: Si Vis Pacem, Para BellumChapters: Internet Censorship in the People’s Republic of China, Green Dam Youth Escort (绿坝·花季护航), Blocking of Wikipedia by the People’s Republic of China, List of Websites Blocked in the People’s Republic of China, Golden Shield Project, War of Internet Addiction, List of Words Censored by Search Engines in the People’s Republic of China, History of Internet Censorship in the People’s Republic of China, Very Erotic Very Violent, 50 Cent Party, List of Internet Phenomena in the People’s Republic of China, Big Mama, Elgoog. Excerpt: 50 Cent Party (Chinese : ; pinyin : W máo D ng), also called 50 Cent Army , refers to paid astroturfing internet commentators working for the People’s Republic of China , whose role is posting comments favorable towards the government policies to skew the public opinion on various Internet message boards. They are named after the 50 Chinese cents, or 5 mao, they are paid per such post, other names are red vests , red vanguard and the Five Mao Party . Conservative estimates put the strength of the 50 Cents Army at tens of thousands while other estimates put their numbers as high as 280,000 300,000. Their activities were described by Chinese President Hu Jintao as “a new pattern of public-opinion guidance”. They operate primarily in Chinese, but English language posts appear as well. Their effect is most felt at the domestic Chinese-language websites, bulletin board systems , and chatrooms . Their role is to steer the discussion away from anti-party articulations, politically sensitive or “unacceptable” content and advance the party line of the Communist Party of China . It has been argued that it is not so much censorship but a public relations tactic. According to the Indian Daily News and Analysis , “to this day, anyone who posts a blatantly propagandist pro-Communist …

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The Great Firewall of China: An evaluation of internet censorship in China

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The Great Firewall of China: An evaluation of internet censorship in China @ CyberWar: Si Vis Pacem, Para BellumInternet users in the People’s Republic of China may not enjoy the same World Wide Web as the rest of the world, but their web viewing experience is edging closer to reality. The government of China is not the only administration to exercise the practice of internet censorship, but it is among the most notorious. Internet censorship in China is a complicated process that is constantly changing. This study found that it is still common for sensitive material to be unavailable in China but the severity of censorship is lessening. It was conducted in order to test the extent of control which the Chinese government has over what its internet users’ view on the internet. Through the longevity of this study and evaluations to past studies, it can be said the internet in China is becoming less controlled. The Great Firewall of China could be falling down. This could be leading to a better informed and more connected Chinese society.

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Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace

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Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace @ CyberWar: Si Vis Pacem, Para BellumInternet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic countries as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China’s famous Great Firewall of China is one of the first national Internet filtering systems. Today the new tools for Internet controls that are emerging go beyond mere denial of information. These new techniques, which aim to normalize (or even legalize) Internet control, include targeted viruses and the strategically timed deployment of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, surveillance at key points of the Internet’s infrastructure, take-down notices, stringent terms of usage policies, and national information shaping strategies. Access Controlled reports on this new normative terrain.

The book, a project from the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a collaboration of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the SecDev Group, offers six substantial chapters that analyze Internet control in both Western and Eastern Europe and a section of shorter regional reports and country profiles drawn from material gathered by the ONI around the world through a combination of technical interrogation and field research methods.

Chapter authors: Ronald Deibert, Colin Maclay, John Palfrey, Hal Roberts, Rafal Rohozinski, Nart Villeneuve, Ethan Zuckerman

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Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance

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Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance @ CyberWar: Si Vis Pacem, Para BellumWhen the prevailing system of governing divides the planet into mutually exclusive territorial monopolies of force, what institutions can govern the Internet, with its transnational scope, boundless scale, and distributed control? Given filtering-censorship by states and concerns over national cyber-security, it is often assumed that the Internet will inevitably be subordinated to the traditional system of nation-states. In Networks and States, Milton Mueller counters this, showing how Internet governance poses novel and fascinating governance issues that give rise to a global politics and new transnational institutions. Drawing on theories of networked governance, Mueller provides a broad overview of Internet governance from the formation of ICANN to the clash at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the formation of the Internet Governance Forum, the global assault on peer-to-peer file sharing and the rise of national-level Internet control and security concerns.

Mueller identifies four areas of conflict and coordination that are generating a global politics of Internet governance: intellectual property, cyber-security, content regulation, and the control of critical Internet resources (domain names and IP addresses). He investigates how recent theories about networked governance and peer production can be applied to the Internet, offers case studies that illustrate the Internet’s unique governance problems, and charts the historical evolution of global Internet governance institutions, including the formation of a transnational policy network around the WSIS.

Internet governance has become a source of conflict in international relations. Networks and States explores the important role that emerging transnational institutions could play in fostering global governance of communication-information policy.

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Internet Censorship: Content-Control Software, Criticism of Facebook, Wikileaks

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Internet Censorship: Content Control Software, Criticism of Facebook, Wikileaks @ CyberWar: Si Vis Pacem, Para BellumChapters: Content-Control Software, History of Wikipedia, Project Chanology, Criticism of Facebook, Wikileaks, Adnan Oktar, Satellite Map Images With Missing or Unclear Data, Youtube Censorship, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression V. Strickland, Bomb-Making Instructions on the Internet, Psiphon, Lapsiporno.info, Web Brigades, Bank Julius Baer Vs. Wikileaks Lawsuit, Lester Asheim, Scunthorpe Problem, Political Repression of Cyber-Dissidents, Missbrauchsopfer Gegen Internetsperren, Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, Jingjing and Chacha, Guillermo Fariñas, Swear Filter, Sabit Ince, Irrepressible.info, Search Engine Image Protection, Medireview, Chester’s Guide To: the Controversy, Blogger’s Code of Conduct, the Digital Imprimatur, Housewitz, World Day Against Cyber Censorship. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 269. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Project Chanology (also called Operation Chanology) is a protest movement against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of Anonymous, a leaderless Internet-based group that defines itself as ubiquitous. The project was started in response to the Church of Scientology’s attempts to remove material from a highly publicized interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in January 2008. The project was publicly launched in the form of a video posted to YouTube, “Message to Scientology”, on January 21, 2008. The video states that Anonymous views Scientology’s actions as internet censorship, and asserts the group’s intent to “expel the church from the internet”. This was followed by distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), and soon after, black faxes, prank calls, and other measures intended to disrupt the Church of Scientology’s operations. In February 2008, the focus of the protest shifted to legal methods.

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