Access denied : : the practice and policy of global Internet filtering / / edited by Ronald Deibert [and others].

Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens--most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or religion. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices...

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Superior document:The information revolution and global politics
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:The information revolution and global politics
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 449 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 Measuring Global Internet Filtering; 2 Internet Filtering: The Politics and Mechanisms of Control; 3 Tools and Technology of Internet Filtering; 4 Filtering and the International System: A Question of Commitment; 5 Reluctant Gatekeepers: Corporate Ethics on a Filtered Internet; 6 Good for Liberty, Bad for Security? Global Civil Society and the Securitization of the Internet; Introduction to the Regional Overviews; Internet Filtering in Asia; Internet Filtering in Australia and New Zealand
  • Internet Filtering in the Commonwealth of Independent StatesInternet Filtering in Europe; Internet Filtering in Latin America; Internet Filtering in the Middle East and North Africa; Internet Filtering in Sub-Saharan Africa; Internet Filtering in the United States and Canada; Introduction to theCountry Summaries; Afghanistan; Algeria; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Belarus; China (including Hong Kong); Cuba; Egypt; Ethiopia; India; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Libya; Malaysia; Moldova; Morocco; Myanmar (Burma); Nepal; North Korea; Oman; Pakistan; Saudi Arabia; Singapore
  • South KoreaSudan; Tajikistan; Thailand; Tunisia; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; Uzbekistan; Venezuela; Vietnam; Yemen; Zimbabwe; Contributors; Index