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Friday, January 20, 2012
Websites going dark: protest against SOPA Act
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Report from Internet Censorship Voyager Facebook Page:
Thousands of websites are going dark today to protest the SOPA ACT (Stop Online Piracy Act). This law is designed to thwart copyright infringement. But it could do more harm to the Internet as a whole. I, and thousands of Web experts across the globe see a threat to the functionality of the Internet. STOP SOPA.
read detail on other website
Report from Internet Censorship Voyager Facebook Page:
Thousands of websites are going dark today to protest the SOPA ACT (Stop Online Piracy Act). This law is designed to thwart copyright infringement. But it could do more harm to the Internet as a whole. I, and thousands of Web experts across the globe see a threat to the functionality of the Internet. STOP SOPA.
read detail on other website
Indian Court threatens to ban facebook, Google etc
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Now it was the turn for Web majors like Google, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo, Microsoft, and in total about 21 companies.
Just a few days back, India's minister of communications and information technology, Kapil Sibal provided various examples of "unacceptable" content. To prove his theory he manifested fake naked pictures of Indian political leaders and also a few of religiously sensitive images present over the web servers of these companies, and hence available to the people around the globe.
Justice Suresh Kait has warned these companies that “like China, we will block all such websites”. Obviously websites containing objectionable material, unless they agree to introduce new measures.
Web business tycoons were told to appear before the Delhi court on 13th March. They have to face criminal charges for allegedly hosting offensive and objectionable material on their websites. Ministry of external affairs has been given the responsibility of serving the summons to the companies.
However, I believe that this cannot happen so swiftly. Enormous restructuring is needed, and a lot of Software Engineering and testing has to be done; That too only for a reduction, not removal!
Even the BBC report says -
Now, let’s see the further gesture of the companies and the court. Till then you may also show a kind gesture by reading and clicking on the Ads in the blog.
Yes, I can see your cursor moving. Now just press a left click. Click many. ;)
Indian court acting on plea of a journalist has warned these companies to remove offensive and objectionable contents.
The story started with a complaint filed in a lower court by Vinay Rai. He is a journalist who alleged that these companies were publishing ghastly material.Just a few days back, India's minister of communications and information technology, Kapil Sibal provided various examples of "unacceptable" content. To prove his theory he manifested fake naked pictures of Indian political leaders and also a few of religiously sensitive images present over the web servers of these companies, and hence available to the people around the globe.
Justice Suresh Kait has warned these companies that “like China, we will block all such websites”. Obviously websites containing objectionable material, unless they agree to introduce new measures.
Web business tycoons were told to appear before the Delhi court on 13th March. They have to face criminal charges for allegedly hosting offensive and objectionable material on their websites. Ministry of external affairs has been given the responsibility of serving the summons to the companies.
However, I believe that this cannot happen so swiftly. Enormous restructuring is needed, and a lot of Software Engineering and testing has to be done; That too only for a reduction, not removal!
Even the BBC report says -
assuming there are over 100 million Internet users in the India, most Internet-based companies say such broad action is impossible.
Truly said, but forgot to add that here we are talking globally. So the number crosses 500 million mark!!Now, let’s see the further gesture of the companies and the court. Till then you may also show a kind gesture by reading and clicking on the Ads in the blog.
Yes, I can see your cursor moving. Now just press a left click. Click many. ;)
Internet Censorship: Mohd Anwar Jamal Faiz : Thought 2
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I would again re-emphasize that the--
I would again re-emphasize that the--
Internet Censorship is wrong and devastating. We are still fortunate that it is a Fool's day prank. We may achieve it but those efficient programmers are in Mars. Find them and get the task done!
what do you feel?
Software Problems in Filtering and censoring Internet
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I really find it hard to tackle the problem of keyword filtering and removing objectionable contents from the Internet servers as big as yahoo, google, Facebook etc.
With more than billions of Internet users let’s see what are problems:
1. Billions of Internet users around the globe
2. Thousands of cultural diversities across the globe
3. Millions of line posted every hour over the internet
4. Approximately 11 hours video upload every third minute across the globe
5. Tweets, status updates, messages, forwarding, comes in a real time environment. So who will keep track of these things
6. What is objectionable may not be objectionable for other and vice-versa
7. Age old problems like “Adult content removal” is still not successful, who the hell can develop an “Offensive content removal” system. Hat’s off to law making people. They think programming just like passing a bill in legislature, or just finding a mistake in law that could convict an innocent or help escape a murderer.
8. Google indexes websites by their webbots (crawlers). But now a filtered Indexing has to be done. So now thousands of daily complaints by webmasters will come, why their websites was not crawled.
9. Facebook has to re-invent ways to check status updates. Monitoring (manual efforts and decision making also reuired here) will make your status updates taking time to come.
10. DNS manipulations and proxy servers are very common these days and known to almost every informed internet user
11. Audio visual contents and text in images are still not possible to handle.
12. Any Language translations API is also not 100% successful till date
13. Bla bla bla
14. Bla bla bla
In addition to these also remember some of my thoughts that I use to share regularly related to Internet Censorship. Combining all facts I find it an extremely baffling problem to deal with.
So do I need to reason out more by logic? You all are better judges.
With more than billions of Internet users let’s see what are problems:
1. Billions of Internet users around the globe
2. Thousands of cultural diversities across the globe
3. Millions of line posted every hour over the internet
4. Approximately 11 hours video upload every third minute across the globe
5. Tweets, status updates, messages, forwarding, comes in a real time environment. So who will keep track of these things
6. What is objectionable may not be objectionable for other and vice-versa
7. Age old problems like “Adult content removal” is still not successful, who the hell can develop an “Offensive content removal” system. Hat’s off to law making people. They think programming just like passing a bill in legislature, or just finding a mistake in law that could convict an innocent or help escape a murderer.
8. Google indexes websites by their webbots (crawlers). But now a filtered Indexing has to be done. So now thousands of daily complaints by webmasters will come, why their websites was not crawled.
9. Facebook has to re-invent ways to check status updates. Monitoring (manual efforts and decision making also reuired here) will make your status updates taking time to come.
10. DNS manipulations and proxy servers are very common these days and known to almost every informed internet user
11. Audio visual contents and text in images are still not possible to handle.
12. Any Language translations API is also not 100% successful till date
13. Bla bla bla
14. Bla bla bla
In addition to these also remember some of my thoughts that I use to share regularly related to Internet Censorship. Combining all facts I find it an extremely baffling problem to deal with.
So do I need to reason out more by logic? You all are better judges.
Internet Censorship: Mohd Anwar Jamal Faiz: Thought 1
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The Internet and cyber Censorship has become latest craze of governments across the globe. But they fail to understand the real situation and challenge in solving the issue:
"The time you spend while reading this article must have been used by several people at several locations to generate several offensive contents for several societies in several languages over several internet portals. And be assured of several formats too!"
Lets see how far the ban in china, Arab spring, and ruling against Facebook, Yahoo, Google etc in India takes us. I believe that the Internet is free, is free, and not be curbed. So, no need to be afraid of. as No Mayan Calendar end date has still been set for the Internet!!
Cheers!!
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Facebook Page on Internet Censorship Voyager
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A page has been created in Facebook for Internet Censorship Voyager Blog Readers.
Users who wish can Like the page and add their comments, thoughts, and feedback on that page too
You may access the page at :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Censorship-Voyager/172211709553542
You can discuss bans and blocks over websites in China, Arab, India or about any Geographical boundaries.
Let's see you there...
Users who wish can Like the page and add their comments, thoughts, and feedback on that page too
You may access the page at :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Censorship-Voyager/172211709553542
You can discuss bans and blocks over websites in China, Arab, India or about any Geographical boundaries.
Let's see you there...
What is Internet Censorship Voyager
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I have defined in the header itself the intention and the purpose of this blog.
Mission: Travelling in modern times to understand, revisit and analyze the technical and ethical issues related to Global Internet Censorship.
Vision: I intend to understand the real need of Internet Censorship, the real problems, the real stories behind every Cyber Censorship attempts; And bring out to my readers latest news, laws, policies, problems, solutions, viability, and correctness of every such attempts in the name of Offensive and Objectionable contents; And to discuss any past or contemporary ban, block, or charges against Google, Facebook, Yahoo and other Internet and Social networking companies operating in the Cyber World.
Mission: Travelling in modern times to understand, revisit and analyze the technical and ethical issues related to Global Internet Censorship.
| Description | The Internet or the Cyber world has taken our Real world from the Library-Magazines-Only state to the state having Search Engines, Wikis, CMSes, Social networks, Whistle Blowers, et al. But as it reaches to its puberty age, it is fearing about censorships from governments across the globe. |
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
New Blog: Internet Censorship Ideas, discussions, problems, and solutions
There is a new blog exclusively dedicated to the Internet censorship issues across the globe. The blog has a related Facebook page too. I am giving the links. Read and like those pages. Blog is full of original, rich, quality articles on the niche area.
Blog Name : Internet Censorship Voyager
Blog Link: http://internet-censorship-voyager.blogspot.com/
Blog Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Censorship-Voyager/172211709553542
I hope you all will enjoy the stuff out there!!
Blog Name : Internet Censorship Voyager
Blog Link: http://internet-censorship-voyager.blogspot.com/
Blog Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Censorship-Voyager/172211709553542
I hope you all will enjoy the stuff out there!!
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