2. THE INTERNET
• 2.5 Billion people on earth use internet.
• Internet promotes creativity and intellect.
• It helps fulfilment of basic human desire i.e.
sharing
• Internet is mass media in the hands of
common man
Quote: People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that they can't read a book from beginning to
end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

3. INTERNET CENSORSHIP
• No one country actually owns the Internet then
how can it be censored?
• Laws of one country cannot impose its
jurisdiction over foreign county’s website
• Censorship of any media limits creativity,
progress, free thought and inhibits ideas from
being created
• Harlem shake wouldn’t have been possible with
censored internet.
Quote: Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut
off.

4. CENSORSHIP HARDSHIPS
• Galileo proved that the earth revolves
round the sun in 1610, because church
censored his theory it was not until
1714 that his theory got accepted and
known.
• Hitler caused chaos by manipulating
media and projecting himself as a
hero by censoring all who spoke
against him.
• Vietnam war ended because the
media reported uncensored and real
time coverage of a war for the 1st time
Quote: Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Galileo and the
church
Hitler’s holocaust Vietnam war

5. CENSORSHIP THE NECESSARY EVIL
• Basic censorship is required for any
form of media to prevent racial hatred,
political unrest, extreme obscenity and
maintain national security.
• Aggressive censorship especially done
without taking public opinion is wrong
• [Thought Experiment] In china the
word democracy cannot be searched
on any search engine. If no one
discusses democracy in China then how
can the Chinese learn more about
democracy and adopt it someday?
Quote: Censorship does not mean restraining the expression of people, in fact it is imposed to protect them

6. INTERNET CENSORSHIP WORLDWIDE
• Role of government?
• society is responsibility of
government?
• Democracy?
Quote: Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

7. INTERNET CENSORSHIP BY COUNTRY
Quote: Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
• Enemies of internet
• China
• Vietnam
• Iran
• North Korea
• Saudi Arabia
• Cuba
• Countries Under Surveillance
• India
• Australia
• France
• Egypt
• Russia
• Malaysia

8. REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Quote: There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
• What is blocked?
• The Great firewall of china.
• Mother jury.
• 50 cent commentators.
• Tea party invitation.
Politically
sensitive terms
Embarrassing
news events
News reporting
sites
Obscene
material
Religious sites
Political activism
sites

9. INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION
Quote: If you are gullible enough to believe some of the garbage that is all over the internet, than it is your own
fault.
• Google: You'll be seeing more revolutions like
the one in Ukraine when another two billion
people connect to the Internet in the next five
years.
• Facebook: We do not know if we will be able to
find an approach to managing content and
information that will be acceptable to us and to
the Chinese government.
• Twitter: As we continue to grow internationally,
we will enter countries that have different ideas
about the contours of freedom of expression

10. CONCLUSION
Quote: Internet censorship should be done to protect rather than withhold the freedom of speech
Internet should be controlled by government
to a certain extent.
What china did is crazy.
Government can not control freedom of
speech.

11. REFERENCES
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