I've decided I am going to say "tank man" in every China thread so their censors will kill the page.
As horrible as many of things the US has done in the name of its citizens (and on its citizens) one thing you'll never see happen here is internet censorship
(instead one-day some US agency will just record every page you've read, or maybe they will have the UK do it for them, so they are technically not spying on their own citizens)
>As horrible as many of things the US has done in the name of its citizens (and on its citizens) one thing you'll never see happen here is internet censorship
You mean the same place that had the Hays code for movie censorship and that gave free reign to Senator McCarthy to prosecute its citizens political ideals (and stop them from writing and making movies and plays influenced by them), and to E.J. Hoover to do surveillance, blackmail etc in an even larger scale?
Or the place were any crackpot teacher/parent association can get something like The Origin Of Species or A People's History of the United States out of a school's curriculum?
The main reason they don't do direct internet censorship is because nobody cares. There are so many sources, so many confused opinions, and so many conditioned citizens, that anything posted is just a drop in the ocean. They just need to control the "serious" or more mass appeal media, and that they do (from the NYT and WP to FOX).
When the press was really influential and the people were more radicalized (e.g. back in the days of unions or later with student protests etc), not only they did censorship and pressure on journalists as to what to write (plus "character assassinations" a la Hoover), but the government started directly manipulating and dictating what would be written to change public opinion (Operation Mockingbird).
> As horrible as many of things the US has done in the name of its citizens (and on its citizens) one thing you'll never see happen here is internet censorship
Internet censorship happens in the US, though its mostly in the form of government pressure on major internet companies to remove access to disfavored content rather than direct government censorship.
Hmm, it is disfavored or illegal content originating in the US?
Because I've seen US law enforcement takedown US websites that were breaking US laws but I've never heard of law enforcement forcing US isps block foreign content, even if it is breaking US law. I could be wrong though and I'd like to see an example in that case.
Maybe the government making youtube or facebook take down terrorist content, that would be censorship I guess if the content is not technically illegal but that's a pretty extreme example.
When it is done because of content, and particularly to suppress content (as opposed to the domain owners rights to particular content), there is a pretty good argument that it is a form of censorship.
As horrible as many of things the US has done in the name of its citizens (and on its citizens) one thing you'll never see happen here is internet censorship
(instead one-day some US agency will just record every page you've read, or maybe they will have the UK do it for them, so they are technically not spying on their own citizens)