Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Table of legislation
- 1 States, firms and legitimacy of regulation: insoluble issues?
- 2 Internet co-regulation and constitutionalism
- 3 Self-organization and social networks
- 4 An empire entire of itself? Standards, domain names and government
- 5 Content regulation and the Internet
- 6 Private ISP censorship
- 7 Analyzing case studies
- 8 Internet co-regulation as part of the broader regulatory debate
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Private ISP censorship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Table of legislation
- 1 States, firms and legitimacy of regulation: insoluble issues?
- 2 Internet co-regulation and constitutionalism
- 3 Self-organization and social networks
- 4 An empire entire of itself? Standards, domain names and government
- 5 Content regulation and the Internet
- 6 Private ISP censorship
- 7 Analyzing case studies
- 8 Internet co-regulation as part of the broader regulatory debate
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introducing Internet filtering and website blocking
This chapter explores the private filtering and censorship of the Internet that already takes place, its murky legal stature and government attempts to substantially increase the levels of censorship that take place, by encouraging private ISPs to censor their own customers. The information is largely culled from the 2008 EC study. I am particularly grateful to the interviewees and relevant team members of the study, for their degree of candour in discussing Internet censorship and government pressures.
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- Internet Co-RegulationEuropean Law, Regulatory Governance and Legitimacy in Cyberspace, pp. 164 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011