1. In order of appearance:
Internet Censorship
In order of appearance:
Dmitriy Bespalov
Ilya Braude
Brian McBurney
Yaroslav Volkov

2. What is censorship?
Censorship - practice of examining in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable
We concern:
Harmful to some groups of people material
Can they be protected from accessing?

3. What is the Internet? Internet We concern:
Set of computers connected in to one global network
No one owns it nor can shut it down
We concern:
Information on the Internet (Web)
There is a lot of it!

4. What is the Internet?

5. Tools for Filtering Web page text search Manual classification
Could filter appropriate content
Could allow inappropriate content
Manual classification
Done by ISP (i.e. AOL)
Expensive to maintain
Not global

6. Waiver
Our discussion is based on the US laws
here

7. Waiver Certain material should not appear on the Internet at all
Web sites that sell illegal substances
Child pornography

8. Current Issues Attempts Should filtering be done by government?
Or should this be up to each person to decide?
Communications Decency Act
Prohibited posting "indecent" or "patently offensive" materials on the Internet
Ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court, 1997
Children’s Internet Protection Act
Requires government - subsidized libraries use filtering technology
Libraries need to deploy filters in 07/03 – 06/04

9. Poll How many people think that: Government should impose filtering?
This should be up to each person to decide?

10. Pro Censorship
Yeah, baby!

11. Anti Censorship
Boooo!

12. Conclusion
Government should have complete and total control over everything!!!
Muuaahahaaaa!