Choose and describe two interesting cases in your blog article - one about online censorship, the other about privacy. Noteː it is recommended to pick cases not already mentioned in this text, but if you find good additional references, it is not forbidden.Internet censorship is restriction of information to a specific group on internet. Many organisations commonly use internet censorship to cover up propaganda or something that has an affect on the organisations itself. However, internet censorship mainly used among governments to block access sensitive or illegal information. In 90's when internet was regulated and monitored by internet community was more free and not facing any internet censorship at all. Censorship is also widely used in educational institutions to prevent students accessing not relevant sites to maximize the efficiency. There are 5 types of internet censorship, some of them do not obey the freedom of speech and justice:
- Preventing copyrighted materials to be distributed illegally.
- Preventing users accessing sensitive or harmful sites.
- Preventing internet-related crimes.
- Promote political ideas (propaganda).
- Preventing people to access right information freely.
In many countries government is promoting political and social ideas not only from internet but on TV channels as well. They show only what they want their people to see. This kind of act can affect the country's interest negatively and even worse result false election results.
Block of Wikipedia in Turkey
As we all know internet is a huge place with billions of web pages all around world. Wikipedia is an open source project with hundreds of thousands volunteers from every part of the world with totally no ads and free content. Also Wikipedia is largest and most popular online encyclopedia in the world! Wikipedia was launched in the beginning of 2000's and it is among top 20 websites with the highest traffic according to Alexa. However this could not prevent Wikipedia being blocked in Turkey for almost 3 years. Recently Turkish government is well know for its human right violation, corruption and freedom of speech crisis. It all happened in June 2016 when false coup was attempted in Turkey against government. The attempt was carried out by Turkish military force and last year military academy students. According to military students, they were told that this was just an operation.
After this false coup attempt Turkish government blamed Fethullah Gulen- Writer, islamic poet, social critic. After 2 years of investigation independent EU human right foundation publicly declared, that this coup attempt was controlled to empower Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is well known as an enemy of press freedom and human rights.
As of 2016 more than 250 000 people were detained among which are:
- Journalist
- Academicians
- Teachers
- Judges
- Prosecutors
- Businessmen
- Babies
Dictator Erdogan was imprisoning minorities who were against him. In 2019 Turkey's prison limits were exceeded and Turkey started building 137 new prisons with the total capacity of 80,000 people. This censorship was not only to Wikipedia but to variety of news pages and many more. There were privacy issues with Turkey tracking your messages, location, web page history and smartphone microphones an so more.
“When a stupid government is elected in a democratic country, the best thing about this is that you learn the number of stupid people in that country!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
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