Internet Censorship and Control
The Internet is a battleground where fights for technical, social, and political control are waged, including between governments and their citizens, separate governments, and competing commercial interests. These fights take many forms, including Internet filtering versus circumvention, surveillance versus anonymization, denial of service attacks and intrusion attempts versus protection mechanisms, and on- and offline persecution and defense of online activists. These battles impact and are impacted by the Internet 's technical structure. As the Internet continues to embed itself into our world, its structural changes will have an increasing effect on our social and political structures, and our social and political structures will have increasing impact on the Internet 's technical structure. (IEEE Computer Society 2013) There have been many advances in technology that call for advances in cyber security.
The growth of cyberspace is transforming our daily lives at home and at work. Because of this,
Cyber security is striving to provide new and improved methods to safeguard communications and service connection. With all the advances, will internet censorship and control change or effect the status of internet security? Across the globe, governments are monitoring and censoring access to the web. And if we are not careful millions more people could find the internet fractured, fragmented and controlled by the state. Every state in the world has its own laws, cultural norms, and accepted behaviors. As billions of people come online in the next decade, many will discover a newfound independence that will test these boundaries. Each state will attempt to regulate the internet, and shape it in its own image. The majority of the world 's internet users encounter some form of censorship – also known by the euphemism "filtering" – but what that actually looks like depends on a country 's policies and its technological infrastructure. Not
The growth of cyberspace is transforming our daily lives at home and at work. Because of this,
Cyber security is striving to provide new and improved methods to safeguard communications and service connection. With all the advances, will internet censorship and control change or effect the status of internet security? Across the globe, governments are monitoring and censoring access to the web. And if we are not careful millions more people could find the internet fractured, fragmented and controlled by the state. Every state in the world has its own laws, cultural norms, and accepted behaviors. As billions of people come online in the next decade, many will discover a newfound independence that will test these boundaries. Each state will attempt to regulate the internet, and shape it in its own image. The majority of the world 's internet users encounter some form of censorship – also known by the euphemism "filtering" – but what that actually looks like depends on a country 's policies and its technological infrastructure. Not
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