Title: Censoring the Internet
Headings: Censoring the Internet
Censoring the Internet
Censorship around the World
Global Internet Regulation
Censorship at Home
Preventing Censorship

Content: Censoring the Internet
Censoring the Internet
by Lucas Kohorst | published Oct. 9th, 2018
Illustration by Aria Dines
W e browse through the internet constantly and not often are we blocked or restricted from accessing websites or certain content. However, that is not the case in many countries. According to Justin Pelletier, a professor and business director at the Center for Cybersecurity, internet censorship is the concept of limiting the flow of information in order to better protect the population or, in most cases, to protect the country’s interests. Censorship around the World
A Wired article describes Chinese internet censorship laws as extremely strict and limiting to what citizens can see and have access to. When Google entered the Chinese market in 2006, they had to conform to these laws. Google complied but maintained the right to show the user what was being censored, displaying much more information than China's primary search engine Baidu. The article continues to describe Google's censorship troubles when in 2009, China decided to censor the internet even more, blocking YouTube and requiring Google to censor even more search terms. At this point, Google decided to shut down their service in China, but the restrictions still stand for Chinese citizens. Restrictions like these are not only present in China. In fact, many countries around the world limit what their citizens can view on the Internet.