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A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques

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Re: A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques

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Really ought to be named "A survey of Worldwide Electronic Censorship Techniques". The article doesn't address where most censorship takes place, at the propaganda and legal levels.

what are "legal levels"?

In some places men from the government will show up at your house to punish you for going online and saying gamer words.

Re: A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques

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"A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques" then on the very first page is a big "Copyright Notice...All rights reserved.".

Copyright is censorship. The most widespread form of it. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in Westworld: "Doesn't look like anything to me."

Re: A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques

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1) Shadow banning and similar techniques employed by Big Tech (but also her eon HN) should be added

2) Government explicit and implicit (bullshit "laws" and such) interference should have its own section

3) Domain name seizures: this could become a serious issue worldwide. See https://reclaimthenet.org/new-proposals-would-let-government...

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Copyright originated in 1557 as a tool of censorship. ^1 [1] https://www.copyrighthistory.org/cam/commentary/uk_1557/uk_1...

History of Copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version :

> In January 1604, King James convened the Hampton Court Conference, where a new English version was conceived in response to the problems of the earlier translations perceived by the Puritans,[7] a faction of [...]

> The translation was done by 6 panels of translators (47 men in all, most of whom were leading biblical scholars in England) who had the work divided up between them: the Old Testament was entrusted to three panels, the New Testament to two, and the Apocrypha to one.[10] In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from Greek, the Old Testament from Hebrew and Aramaic, and the Apocrypha from Greek and Latin.

And they translated Hebrew "Kaneh Bosm" as "Calamus", a sweet cane that's not an active ingredient; and then copyrighted their work of men.

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