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==New Media== |
==New Media== |
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* The "P5" of [[TV Tropes]], in the name of making the website "Family Friendly"—though really it's for making the website ''advertiser'' friendly. They also claim that what they do is not censorship, because they're not a government. To refute this assertion, see the Hays Code entry above and the Nintendo entry below. |
* The "P5" of [[TV Tropes]], in the name of making the website "Family Friendly"—though really it's for making the website [[Think of the Advertisers!|''advertiser'' friendly]]. They also claim that what they do is not censorship, because they're not a government. To refute this assertion, see the Hays Code entry above and the Nintendo entry below. |
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* The Internet, in many countries, has brought greater freedom of expression by comparison to the "freedom of the press for anyone who owns one" era of print (where several large publishing houses control most of the book market) and broadcast (where access to the few, scarce available frequencies is tightly controlled by governments). In what is otherwise an era of dangerous concentration of media ownership in the hands of a few large [[Mega Corp]]s, New Media is a breath of fresh air... which a whole lot of [[Amoral Attorney]]s are trying their utmost to strangle at birth. Among the weak points: |
* The Internet, in many countries, has brought greater freedom of expression by comparison to the "freedom of the press for anyone who owns one" era of print (where several large publishing houses control most of the book market) and broadcast (where access to the few, scarce available frequencies is tightly controlled by governments). In what is otherwise an era of dangerous concentration of media ownership in the hands of a few large [[Mega Corp]]s, New Media is a breath of fresh air... which a whole lot of [[Amoral Attorney]]s are trying their utmost to strangle at birth. Among the weak points: |
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** Governments in totalitarian countries are prone to order Internet service providers to block access to individual sites. Roskomnadzor is bad for this in Russia. Communist China is worse, with the "Great Firewall of China" (officially, "Golden Shield Project") deploying massive infrastructure to censor everything. North Korea is worse, as most simply have no access to international telephone calls or the outside Internet at all. |
** Governments in totalitarian countries are prone to order Internet service providers to block access to individual sites. Roskomnadzor is bad for this in Russia. Communist China is worse, with the "Great Firewall of China" (officially, "Golden Shield Project") deploying massive infrastructure to censor everything. North Korea is worse, as most simply have no access to international telephone calls or the outside Internet at all. |
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