Year IV students’ blog for Internet Education

Jad, you still don’t have an essay on internet censorship. Please answer the following questions in essay form and post it as an entry on this blog. Choose Censorship among the categories.

1. What is internet censorship?

2. Is there internet censorship in the Philippines?

3. Compare the Philippine situation with those in China, Singapore and Myanmar.

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Joy, you missed a classroom exercise that was timed. Here’s what you’ll do:

Your topic is Mary Boleyn. You will have to find info about Mary Boleyn from the 1) school library and 2) the internet.

Part 1: Do all this within 10 minutes. Go to the library and find everything you can about Mary Boleyn using any book or books. Specifically, you are looking for info about who she was (historical significance), when she was born and when she died. DO NOT spend more than 10 minutes. If you find nothing in the library within 10 minutes, that’s okay. Just say you found nothing.

Part 2: Go online and search the Internet for Mary Boleyn. Again, time yourself in minutes and seconds and take note how long it took you to find out who she was, when she was born and when she died.

Post an entry on this blog (category: Library versus Internet). Give the information you found in the library AND how long it took you to find the info. Do the same with what you found on the web and remember to provide the time stamp too.

Amy Winehouse was caught on camera doing cocaine. This disproves all her replies on denying the intake of drugs. Sadly, because of the video, which is now available for public viewing, she has gone to rehab even if her song “Rehab” suggests that she would never go. In my opinion these tapes should never have been shot. A celebrity is still a human being who has rights of their own and most paparazzi tend to forget that. They need respect like any other person who trots on this planet. Because of this unfortunate event her stardom may take a break or, since Hollywood is a place where anything can happen, even grow due to the publicity she’s getting. As they say any publicity is good publicity.

Yes, I agree on this if it’s going to be in the UK. The United Kingdom just like the United States, and China both had already been at the peak of their economy mostly because of both computers and the web, it’s about time for them to use for educational purposes, and what better way to do that than doing PTCs in the web and make it a way for parents to check up on their child’s educational standing towards school.

This can’t be applied to the Philippines because as we can see that a large percentage of adults in our country either knows a little about the web and computers itself, and worse, doesn’t know anything anything about both at all. This is because most of them came from a poor family since the reign of the Japanese, and Marcos. Actually, internet is really fresh for the most of us, so I don’t think we Filipinos still have the capacity to carry this opportunity to let our parents to have the chance to get the chance to see our report cards on the web.

Internet censorship is the way where webmasters can control their sites in which they take out the over malicious contents in it or just hide it from the under aged users.

The senate is starting to proliferate the “malicious” contents on every site that are on the ISPs inside the Philippines, but most people contradict with it because they might take out the contents that are morally unacceptable such as government critical essays, adult-only-arts, or even the addicting MMORPGs.  

China has laws on internet censorship, but these laws are not nationwide. Most pornographic sites are banned from a city, but sometimes the same site is allowed on another city.

In Singapore, internet censorship is taken to the fullest importance, because the populace is very conservative. Not only pornographic sites are banned, but also political, racial, and religious content are also not allowed in the ISPs of this country. This is done to avoid upsetting the delicate multi-racial society.

Last, in Myanmar, since its 2007 anti-government protest, the government completely shut down all its internet sites.