Censorship

Introduction

 Nowadays an average person can have access to Internet and vast amount of data. The peoplesuch as students, researchers, social and political workers, and children around the world doshare their opinion on different platforms. In fact, I name this freedom of speech and great sourceof learning which has turned this world into a global village. But some countries have startedmonitoring the work of Internet users, filtering data and information, banned some importantsites, or trace the route of data fetched. Such kind of controlling and manipulating the trafficover the Internet is termed as ‘Censorship of Internet’ by the Government officials. For instance,Pakistan has banned

www.youtube.com

 and filtering data over

www.facebook.com

 so that theinappropriate uploading and sharing of images would be controlled. Similarly, Iran, China,Tunisia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Burma, and North Korea are the top 10 internet-censoredcountries

(Usatoday.com, 2014)

. In addition, the 2012 fight to stop SOPA (Stop Online PrivacyAct) or PIPA (Protect IP Act) Web-censorship bills was just the beginning and is still a sign ofhopelessness to Internet lovers

(Josh and Sassaman, 2014)

.Internet consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government network ofnetworks with unique IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. As users browse and get advantages ofinformation over these networks there are also some issues pointed out by authorities to beharmful to people that they will not succeed or live in harmony. The following discussion will befocused on how censorship of Internet that work in some instances and how it can be detrimentto the society.

How Internet Censorship Works

How easy it is to Censor Internet

We are benefited Internet due to programmers and network engineers. To censor networks thereis a need of huge number of network administrators, engineers, and in some cases network programmers, however, there is a great shortage of such...