Access Denied The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens--most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or religion. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices...

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Main Author: Deibert, Ronald
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge MIT Press 2008
The MIT Press
Edition:1
Series:Information Revolution and Global Politics
Subjects:
Access control
Censorship
Central / national / federal government policies
Computers
Computers > Access control
Engineering Profession
filtering
Government policy
Impact of science and technology on society
Information Science
Internet
Internet > Censorship
Internet > Government policy
Internet Studies
Mathematics and Science
Media & Internet
Political Process
Political Science
Politics and government
Regional, state and other local government
Regional, state and other local government policies
Science: general issues
Society and Social Sciences
Technology & Policy
ISBN:0262541963, 9780262541961, 9780262042451, 0262042452, 9780262255998, 0262255995
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Measuring Global Internet Filtering -- 2 Internet Filtering: The Politics and Mechanisms of Control -- 3 Tools and Technology of Internet Filtering -- 4 Filtering and the International System: A Question of Commitment -- 5 Reluctant Gatekeepers: Corporate Ethics on a Filtered Internet -- 6 Good for Liberty, Bad for Security? Global Civil Society and the Securitization of the Internet -- Introduction to the Regional Overviews -- Internet Filtering in Asia -- Internet Filtering in Australia and New Zealand -- Internet Filtering in the Commonwealth of Independent States -- Internet Filtering in Europe -- Internet Filtering in Latin America -- Internet Filtering in the Middle East and North Africa -- Internet Filtering in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Internet Filtering in the United States and Canada -- Introduction to theCountry Summaries -- Afghanistan -- Algeria -- Azerbaijan -- Bahrain -- Belarus -- China (including Hong Kong) -- Cuba -- Egypt -- Ethiopia -- India -- Iran -- Iraq -- Israel -- Jordan -- Kazakhstan -- Kyrgyzstan -- Libya -- Malaysia -- Moldova -- Morocco -- Myanmar (Burma) -- Nepal -- North Korea -- Oman -- Pakistan -- Saudi Arabia -- Singapore -- South Korea -- Sudan -- Tajikistan -- Thailand -- Tunisia -- Ukraine -- United Arab Emirates -- Uzbekistan -- Venezuela -- Vietnam -- Yemen -- Zimbabwe -- Contributors -- Index