Tag: Censorship
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In a recent post, I equated the Great Fire Wall of China to prison walls, which are intended to keep people inside the bounded area of the Chinese Internet. However, this virtual wall is not built from steel and concrete, rather it is constructed with a combination of legal regulations, co-operation with ISPs and technology,…
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Unintended Consequences
Prison walls are typically built to keep people in. Similarly the Great Fire Wall of China is intended to keep Chinese inside the moderated Chinese “internet”. But, with the threat of a TikTok shutdown in the United States, hundreds of thousands of users of that service have opted to move to “Red Book“, an alternative…
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Execution
in: Documentary
[this is the third article of three: part 1, part 2] Among the observations in the essay by Geoffrey Batchen, in Thomas Barrow’s book Cancellations, was his view that defacing of the negatives was an act violence, which resonated with my feelings about mindless censorship, further magnified by the use of an “X” (rather than…
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Rationale vs Execution of Censorship
in: Documentary[this is the second article of three: part 1, part 3] American Philosopher James Fieser cites a number of factors that inform censorship decisions. Those against censorship include: The arguments in support of censorship include: Reading Fieser’s ethics-based arguments I couldn’t help but think of Yossarian’s approach to censoring letters to home from enlisted men…
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Thought Process: Gingerbread Build, Pornography, Censorship, and Diversity
[this is the first article of three: part 2, part 3]I recently photographed the Gingerbread Build at Toronto City Hall. The purpose of the event was to both raise funds for a charity and to organize a family function congruent with the season. Among my instructions was to only photograph children with a green wristband;…