Category Archives: Censorship

By Li Hui and Megha Rajagopalan

TIANJIN, China (Reuters) - In a modern office building on the outskirts of the Chinese city of Tianjin, rows of censors stare at computer screens. Their mission: delete any post on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, deemed offensive or politically unacceptable.

But the people behind the censorship of China's most popular microblogging site are not ageing Communist Party apparatchiks. Instead, they are new college graduates. Ambivalent about deleting posts, they grumble loudly about the workload and pay.

Managing the Internet is a major challenge for China. The ruling Communist Party sees censorship as key to maintaining its grip on power - indeed, new measures unveiled on Monday threaten jail time for spreading rumours online.

At the same time, China wants to give people a way to blow off steam when other forms of political protest are restricted.

Reuters interviewed four former censors at Sina Weibo, who all quit at various times this year. All declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the work they once did. Current censors declined to speak to Reuters.

"People are often torn when they start, but later they go numb and just do the job," said one former censor, who left because he felt the career prospects were poor. "One thing I can tell you is that we are worked very hard and paid very little."

Sina Corp, one of China's biggest Internet firms, runs the microblogging site, which has 500 million registered users. It also employs the censors.

The company did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

"STRESSFUL, DEAD-END JOB"

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Ridiculous Anime Censorship (An Unreleased Anime Censorship Rant)
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The Last of Us (Survivor Mode) - Part 32 - Censorship
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Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) September 09, 2013

This week in the idcloak.com Forum, parents, educators and high school students are invited to contribute their opinions to a special discussion on web censorship in secondary schools.

idcloak Technologies delivers web rerouting products (proxies) which can potentially be used by students to unblock sites that are prohibited on a school network. The firm is considering prohibiting this use of their services but doing so goes against the companys wider remit for internet freedom.

idcloaks Director of Marketing, Gill-Chris Welles, himself a former secondary school teacher, seeks to engage parents and educators for their views on proxy services and on censorship more widely, Our firm is against web censorship primarily because it represents the denial of choice. But this viewpoint is muddied when we come to its application in schools. Parents and educators are responsible for the safety of minors; and with that responsibility should follow the right to decide when to grant freedoms and when to hold them back.

However, speaking more as a teacher than a representative of a company specializing in internet freedom services, Welles suggests modern school censorship rarely follows sound educational strategies.

During my time as an educator, I learned that the best way to guide behaviour at the teenage level is through communication on a non-judgmental, equal footing. When students are invited to share their views in response to your own, understanding is heightened on both sides. Through dialogue, students gain assess to the logic of behaving one way over another. Ultimately, if they choose to heed your guidance rather than obey an edict, their behavior is much more strongly reinforced.

On censorship specifically, Welles continues this line of thinking, We need to rationalize with the student and persuade him or her that accessing Facebook at school is negative: that it is a distraction, that it puts the school network in danger of malware infection and it overburdens bandwidth so that educational use of the web grows slow. When students hear these points and agree that they are valid, then is the time to ask for their permission to use filters to block Facebook and YouTube. When censorship is established with mutual consent in this way, I am all for it. But when it is imposed with no dialogue whatever with the students, I am far less supportive.

idcloaks Forum is fielding public opinion with immediate effect and visitors are invited to share their views. Once discussion is concluded, idcloak will update its Terms of Service to reflect their new position.

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NWU-Pukke's management says the closure of its campus newspaper was due to financial problems, but its journalism lecturers have cried foul.

Journalism lecturers at the North-West University's (NWU) Potchefstroom campus are up in arms over a bombshell decision by the university's management to halt publication of a campus newspaper, which they maintain amounts to censorship and trampling on media freedom.

Kevin du Plessis, editor of Wapad a paper whose first edition was published in 1946 received the news on Monday morning that the marketing department decided to suspend publication of the newspaper. The reason given was that the paper was in debt of nearly R80000, a bill that the department is not prepared to foot.

The timing to pull the plugon the paper also raises eyebrows as it comes during a week Du Plessis was to publish a story about his assault last weekend, allegedly by a second-year student. Du Plessis told the Mail & Guardianhis alleged assailant accused him of failing to endorse patriotism promoted at Veritas students' residence in the paper.

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UN #39;s Answers on DRC and Sri Lanka, FUNCA Protests Canceling Briefing, UN Censorship Alliance
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