Internet Censorship

The above video provides a greater understanding on what internet censorship is and how it works. 

Most of the world is connected to the internet these days. However, some governments around the world has decided to censor their internet. Basically internet censorship is the process whereby which the control or censorship of what content can be accessed, published or viewed on the internet. Governments make use of internet censorship so that the citizens of their countries cannot go online and view everything that is available on the internet. Governments naturally have their reasons as to why they need to censor the internet. One can only hope that the reason that they are doing this is in best interest of their country. Some of the types of internet censorship that exists are namely, Moral, Political, Religious and for Military purposes. The following statistics are seen as supporting evidence that relays that governments are censoring their internet content based on the types mentioned previously.

In Iran 40% of the content on their internet that is blocked are political and government websites and a further 20% of their content that are censored are sexual websites.
In Europe, approximately 20% of the internet content that are censored are Moral and Political websites.
(Above information was accessed online: http://brandongaille.com/32-amazing-internet-censorship-statistics/)

There are quite a number of different methods that can be used to censor the internets content.
Some of them include:
> Internet Protocol (IP) address blocking: Access to a certain IP address is denied
> Domain name system (DNS) filtering and redirection: Blocked domain names are not solved, or an incorrect IP address is returned via DNS hijacking or other means.
> Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering: URL strings are scanned for target keywords regardless of the domain name specified in the URL.
> Packet filtering: Terminate TCP packet transmissions when a certain number of controversial keywords are detected.

So how do the citizens of their country feel about their governments that has censored the internet?
> 78% of  Latin America are concerned
>  60%of North Americans are concerned
> 54% of Europeans are concerned
> 69% of Middle East and Africa are concerned
(Above information was accessed online: http://brandongaille.com/32-amazing-internet-censorship-statistics/)

Well these statistics proves that the citizens of the world are not in favour of internet censorship. Mostly people feel that it is an infringement on their constitutional right of freedom of speech and access to information. It keeps truthful and honest news or information away from people and in this manner, they feel cheated and betrayed.