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.
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