World Wide Web Censorship
Watch everything
These days
Even walls have ears
A gossip can lead
TO TREASON
DO NOT CHIT-CHAT!
“Russian government is going to censor internet” -read the line from an e-mail that one of my Ukrainian friends sent me today. So what does it mean, are we going back to communism?
A lot of criticism has been brought upon Soviet Union and the centralized system after the fall of the country. Entire world expected the people of Russia to start building democratic state and enjoy new opportunities. However it is impossible to build a democracy in 10 years, therefore instead of industrial boom, free speech and trade Russians had to face chaos. No wonder that Vladimir Putin, who came and with an iron fist brought stability and order gained so much popularity and support.
Older generations of people in the countries of former Soviet Union are still used to obey to the higher authority. On the other hand government did not play such a big role in the lives of young Russians, Ukrainians, Kyrgyz and others. Therefore the situation is tricky.
Starting form January 2008 Russian politicians started talking about a new piece of legislature that has to be created in the future, regulating materials on World Wide Web. In the recent years internet gained huge popularity all over the world and many cannot imagine their daily lives without it. However internet can be very dangerous since it is completely uncensored. Everybody can post literally anything they want. But this is the main concept off the internet – complete freedom of speech. Hoverer in the process of posting free many users do not follow common rules. Terrorist organizations use internet to gain popularity and attract more members, hackers steal information and rob other users, a problem that is especially dear to Russia. Therefore in Russia, a country with one of the worst internet security fields this idea is actually reasonable.
However what else can it bring? Censorship, violation of free speech, pro-government internet? Just for fun I created this sound piece to see how internet would operate in a totalitarian regime:
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All about Mail Censors » Blog Archive » ‘mail censor’ on the web said this on March 25, 2008 at 12:03 am |
I really like sound piece. It’s funny and yet eerie at the same time. It certainly is a terrifying world we live in.