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Internet Censorship: The Technology of Information Control.

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UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities

From The Solari Team
June 11, 2025

Most of us already know that governments are involved in widespread internet censorship. But it is also important to understand the role of internet service providers, software corporations, and internet companies.” ~ UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities

The Technology of the Working Web Part I

By Rochelle Terman

Despite the guarantee of free access to information enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human rights, the number of countries engaging in some kind of internet censorship continues to grow rapidly around the world. The issue of internet censorship is now central in policy, communication, and technology debates. It has also become of interest to scholars in the humanities and social sciences who think seriously about the relationship between culture, politics, and the internet.

But in order to build a rich conversation about the causes and consequences of internet censorship, we must first understand how internet censorship works, especially on a technical level. This two-part post lays out a (simplified) explanation of internet censorship technologies. The first of these gives a broad overview of how the internet works, while the next post builds on these foundations to explain how various censorship techniques can block information on the internet.

Censorship can occur at different points in the Internet system, from whole networks, certain ports, individual domains or even specific keywords identified by filtering software. The only way to adequately bypass censorship or create effective policy is to identify the specific censorship techniques that are used. Continues at https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/blog/internet-censorship-part-1-technology-working-web

The Technology of Information Control

Here, in the second part of my blog post on internet censorship, the mechanisms of internet control are explained in more detail.

Internet censorship, like all censorship, can take multiple forms, from filtering and blocking content to monitoring and penalizing users who access certain content. Governments may both define what to block and implement the technological process of blocking, or they may create legislation, extra-legal incentives, or policy to compel “autonomous” technological firms to carry out the blocking and surveillance for them. Often the most simple strategy is to demand the removal of websites with illegal content.

Even within the technical domain, Internet censorship refers to a plethora of tools and strategies to prevent information from reaching users. So it is important to remember that when we refer to “internet censorship” we are not referring to one thing, one software, one point of blockage. Censorship can occur at one point on the internet circuit, can manifest as a blanket filter for all connections in a given country or can be micro-focused on individual sites, machines, and even words. Continues at https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/blog/internet-censorship-part-2-technology-information-control

Source https://solarireport.substack.com/p/why-high-integrity-email-and-internet

Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

Debbie Lerman
Feb 11, 2024

What’s happening is that a tool powerful enough to surveil everything that’s said and done on the Internet (or large portions of it) is becoming available to the government to monitor all of us, all the time. And, based on that monitoring, the government – and any organization or company the government partners with – can then use the same tool to suppress, silence, and shut down whatever speech it doesn’t like.

https://www.ourgreaterdestiny.ca/p/government-funds-whole-of-internet

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Doreen Agostino
Our Greater Destiny Blog
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