Internet Censorship is the evaluation procedure or containment of the published or waiting to be published content on the internet. The legal issues are more alike to general censorship laws. But there are certain differences between offline censorship and online censorship. National borders are not any barrier for online content. If a country bans certain content of website or an entire website, it is possible for a citizen to go outside the country and access the content. However, a government can put step further by banning the objectionable website or certain content for its citizens.
Internet censoring can be based on a known blacklist or may go self-motivated to find newer websites or content to filter or block. The blacklisted sites or content doesn’t get an approval to come out or get published. The list can be created manually or robotically.
In North Korea, the government is pretty much rigid on the issue of cyber crime and internet pornography. The government has a total control over the websites inside its periphery. But it is not possible for all countries to implement a total internet censorship. It is next to impossible to achieve total censorship of the internet content. There are some technological way-out named as Pseudonymity and Data Havens which guarantees that a content can not e removed elsewhere.
In 2007, Vint Cerf who is called ‘The father of the Internet’ echoed some other socialists and politicians that internet censorship is not getting up to snuff because of private ownership of various websites.
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