Asia censorship blogspot slogan contest 2012!

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Is it necessary for the Government to monitor every avtivity in the Internet?

Based on the pie chart above, we can clearly see that it is necessary for the government to monitor whatever activities that take place in the internet. 71% voted yes, it is necessary and 28% voted no, it's not necessary.

Government should monitor every activity on the Internet to avoid any mishaps or problems in the future. Monitoring does not mean that they should always 'masuk campur' but they must be on a look-out for any fishy activity.

Fishy activities are like big amount of money transfer, nude pictures, any unwanted video, any post or statements about someone, and many more. Due to the high technology, everyone seem to use the Internet for everything, which can be for a right purpose or wrong purpose.

The Government should monitor to prevent any breach of trust or whatsoever.

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Internet censorship in Indonesia

After the online release of the “Peterporn” sex tapes earlier this summer in Indonesia, the government there began panicked talk of Internet censorship to stop this kind of material from appearing for dissemination once more. Even though this predominantly Muslim nation already has anti-pornography laws in place which permit the government to prosecute offenders who post these prohibited materials online, this deterrent has been deemed ineffective after this recent rash of releases. Now along with the support of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was once hesitant about enacting any sort of mass censorship, a new filtration plan has been thrown together in a haphazard way that looks to be neither organized nor sustainable. The government is placing the filtration burden on the ISPs and public access points to the Internet, like cyber cafes. Surprisingly, there has been little-to-no objection from the Indonesian service providers except for concerns over the technical feasibility of the filtration. The government slapped a target date for the blockage of porn sites to become active before the Muslim holy fasting period of Ramadan. With it starting on August 11th this year, the preparation period for these filters was only about one month. 

INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN ASIA 2012 ONLINE CONTEST

The time you have been waiting for has finally arrived!! Expose your creativity by joining our Internet Censorship Online Contest by creating a slogan not less than 20 words based on the picture below. Remember your slogan should relate back to Internet Censorship and it should be your own words. Slogans that are not related to internet censorship or copied from any sites will be disqualified.

Rate how strong is Malaysia's internet censorship. ( 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest)

Based on the poll above, we can clearly see that Malaysia's censorship is just in the border of it. 83% of people rated Malaysia's internet censorship as 3, which is not too strong and not too weak.

From here we can see that Malaysia still has to improve on its internet censorship. Recently, many cases were brought on internet censorship. There was one case whereby a university student posted something about our Prime Minister and the government were able to detect and called him for enquiry.

Malaysia should tighten their rules on internet censorship as in certain things you can post and certain things you cannot post. Malaysia should come up with a guideline for the people on internet censorship.

Internet Censorship In Vietnam

Internet censorship is getting tighter in Vietnam. In recent days, student and young people have complained that local authorities have partially or wholly blocked access to sites like Facebook, the BBC Vietnamese service and Vietnamese media based abroad. Many websites writing about democracy, freedom, justice and peace cannot be opened, Hanoi Catholics told AsiaNews. Dorothy Chou, a policy analyst at Google, recently looked at the Vietnamese government’s new internet regulations. She found that Vietnamese authorities now have the means to block access to websites, as well as to track user activities.

 In Ho Chi Minh City, people told AsiaNews that “local authorities are blocking all radical sites This has pushed cybercafés to install programmes with violent games. Children and young people end up spending time and money on them. They live in a virtual world and have no relations with their families and communities. One cybercafé manager in the capital said that since people cannot open sites that discuss democracy, freedom, justice and peace, to make money I had to install violent and deceitful games.

INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN ASIA 2012 ONLINE CONTEST

RULES & REGULATIONS

    1: This Censorship Online Contest is organized by Internet Censorship Asia 2012 and is open to 

        all  Malaysian residents between the ages of 18 and above.

    2: The following groups of persons shall not be eligible to participate in this Contest:

        Employees of the Organiser  and their immediate family members parents, brothers, sisters or

         any   other relatives.

DURATION

      This Contest will run from 15 March 2012 to 25 March 2012 [“the Contest Period”]. The 

      Organiser    shall reserve the right to amend the Contest Period at any time without prior notice. 

      All   entries received outside the Contest Period will be automatically disqualified. 

SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES AND QUALIFYING CRITERIA

     To participate in this Contest, the participants must first be registered as a contestant

1. Registration is only open to Malaysian residents.
2. . There are  2 stages of the Contest.
3. To enter the Contest, , Name, Email address, Mobile number is needed. To register, participant should email your details  to us at rajcensorz@gmail.com/ joancensorz@gmail.com or kavithacensorz@gmail.com
4. The participants who have registered during Stage 1 will be notified via Email about Stage 2 of the Contest.
5. Stage 1 Registrations will be closed on 30 March 2012  at 23:59:59. Registrations after the date mentioned will not be qualified.
6. In stage 2 the eligible contestant will be asked to create a slogan for a picture and it has to be related to censorship.
7. Contestant have to be creative and the slogan should not be more then 15 words.
8. Participant should post their slogans to our blog.
9. Each participant may submit only one (1) valid  slogan. Each entry received during the Contest Period will be serialized according to the most creative and  superlative slogan.
10. In the event of duplicate entries from the same participant, the submitted entry which is most recent will be treated as a valid entry.
11. All submissions for Stage 2 must be received by the Organiser by 23:59:59 on 2nd April,2012. Submissions after this date will be disqualified.
12. The winner will be notified via Email and telephone call on  6 April 2012

PRIZES

1. The Grand Prize winner will be selected  by  the contributors of this blog .The decisions on all matters are final and binding and no correspondence or appeal will be entertained.
2. The Grand  winner will be entitle to RM100.00
3. Is not exchangeable of any other goods.

OTHER TERMS& CONDITIONS 

     1: All materials, slogan submitted must be original and shall not breach any intellectual property 

         rights  belonging to any party.

     2: The Organiser  decisions are final and no correspondence thereon will be entertained.

     3: The Organiser, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to modify these Rules & Regulations 

         without any prior notice

Internet Censorship in Pakistan

The recent news in Pakistan, the Lahore high court has ordered the Ministry of Telecom and Information to disable Facebook by October 6, 2011 due to the fact that users in Facebook posts contents which promotes religious discriminations. 

This isn't the first time such decisions are made in Pakistan. However in 2010, the government temporarily blocked Facebook for posting blasphemous content. This is mainly because Pakistan had a long history of censorship relevant to religions. During the years back, they used to ban books, newspapers, even journals and imprisoned journalists who tried to raise their voice against the government. They claim that religious discriminations are attacking human rights.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has sent a legal notice to all the ISPs asking to furnish detailed report about the customers using Encrypted VPNs. This is so that whoever wants to use this technology needs the permission from the government to access it. 

Reference: http://www.bestvpnservice.com/blog/internet-censorship-in-asia-part-1

Censorship in China

In terms of censorship in Asian countries, China leads the group which are well known for censorship. It is on the record that the government blocks and regulated many of the sites in China, at one point of time people could not access the popular internet social networking sites such as Facebook.


One of the most effective website are those that have discussion pertaining the Dalai Lama, who is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He is said to have a keen interest in Science and has been researching about how meditation effects the brain.


According to Wikipedia, the are rumours that the internet police unit of China stands at a staggering 30, 000 personnel. The most commonly effected individual are journalist and individuals that call on the government to reform of corruption, transparency and many other issues. China is 1 of the countries that are under communist ruling, the freedom of open interaction on the internet thrives on what the communist feels fine about.

Any dissenting views in regards to political ideology, transparency, governance, value and economy of the communist party quickly barred from the internet and offenders are arrested. Many bloggers have also been arrested for voicing out out many issues affecting the Chinese community.


It is also said that the government of China has a number of gadgets such as human face recognition and video monitoring that aid the internet police in regards to offenders in regards to internet security. In regards of Internet content, websites that offends the authorities are blocked or barred, Censorship is done through IP blocking, URL filtering, packet filtering and DNS filtering and redirection.

Censorship in India takes a New Twist

India has urged social media sites, which include Facebook, Twitter and even Goggle to remove offensive material and self censor user generated content, unleashing a storm of criticism from internet users complaining of censorship in the worlds largest democracy. 


This rules requires companies like Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter that provide the platform for users to comment and create their own content to respond quickly to complaints from individual users. If the complainants claim is valid, this company must take down the offensive information within 36 hours.

Government official are upset about web pages that are insulting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ruling Party congress leader Sonia Ghandi and major religious figures. Some illustrations have shown Singh and Ghandi in compromising position and running around through Mecca, Islam's holly city.


Indian IT minister Kapil Sibal spoke repeatedly with officials from major Internet companies over the past 3 months and asked them to come up with a voluntary framework to keep offensive material off the net.


Indian is more sensitive than other countries, some amount of check and balance is required but the pre screen every material is an uphill task and may not be practically applicable.It is not clear how far the government will go to monitor the web but it certainly seem like the internet experience in India set to change  for both users and service provider.  

Reference

1. Guardian.co.uk website, internet censorship India democracy [Online ], Retrieved 8th March 2012

     URL : :http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/07/internet-censorship-india-democracy

SELF CENSORSHIP

Based on the poll majority answered it is important to have self censorship. self censorship can be defined as control of what you say or do in order to avoid problems or offending others, but without being told officially that such control is necessary

it is vital to practice self censorship mainly when your posting or updating anything on net simply because many people will be viewing your post. Self censorship can be done by filtering words or sentences that is offensive or problematic which may put you in trouble in future. Posting issues regarding races, politics or any important people or well known people which is sensitive or complex has a high tendency to put you in hot soup. 


so in order to protect ourselves from getting into unnecessary problems in future, it is advisable to be carefull on what we post on net. it is important because you can save yourself and your family and closed one from getting into trouble.

Internet Censorship in Singapore

Singapore is an economic leader in Southeast Asia, with a vibrant information communication technologies sector. However the state maintains a strong formal and informal controls over the information to which its citizens have access. Singapore's official position is that the state filters Internet content to promote social values and maintain national unity. Singapore's media acts as a "semi-official bridge between the public and Government. In Singapore,formal actions to control content is frequent.

The Singapore Telecommunications Act requires Internet access servise providers (IASPs) to obtain a license before offering services to the public in Singapore. Under the Media Development Authority of Singapore Act ( MDA), the MDA has authority to require the blocking of specific external sites or domain and to mandate the removal or moderation of 'objectionable' content hosted by service or content providers .

The MDA's Internet Code of Practice defines prohibited content, which engaged in explicit sexual activity, advocates homosexuality or lesbianism, shows sexual activity by a person less than 16 years old , violence and cruelty, endorse ethnic, racial or religious hatred. In practice, the MDA claims to have established a 'symbolic' list of 100 sites that are officially blocked. People attempting to view any sites on this list will be informed that the in question is blocked.