Internet Censorship Laws In Your Country!?

[Wallonia-Brussels]

Internet filtering is illegal in both Wallonia and Brussels; any government caught trying to censor will fall into serious troubles, are unlikely to be re-elected (the people are very active on the net) and the First Minister stands a good chance of being impeached.

[Morlago]

Parents and schools can opt for specific computers to censor pages of a pornographic, obscene and/or violent nature, but other than that, we do not censor anything on the Internet.

[Arkiasis]

Internet censorship is illegal and unconstitutional as it impedes on freedom of speech and communication.

[Sanctus Pacis]

Sanctus Pacis only censors and removes Child Pornography on the internet. Other than that, the government only monitors select websites to cut down on crime.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

We only block or take down child pornography, and ...

ISPs also use a content advisory system that flags websites that promote constitutionally banned organisations. The system redirects requests for such sites to a page that informs the user that the website promotes illegal activity, and then asks them whether they wish to continue.

[Ulvena]

Well we take down websites that break the law like films that have real murders in them or child pornography. You know, basically what every nation would do. THAT...and any website that is a REAL threat to the Empire as a whole. If it's a website that just berates a politician that deserves berating, the Empire is all for it but if the website is attacking the Empire as a whole and giving an advantage to other nations, that website is taken down.

So...really selective censorship or just surveillance.

[Peoples Republic of Old Russia]

The Internet is not censored or surveyed by the government. However, if the police force has a legal warrant and a genuine reason for watching a specific person's Internet use, they have the right to under law.

[Umbra Ac Silentium]

There is no internet censorship in the slightest in our nation.
Free speech applies online as well.

[Central Lothian]

With the exception of child porn, there is no censorship in CL.

[Nulono]

In the USSN, the Revolution of +BB3692 was started by some comparably modest proposals in regulating the Internet, such as an attempt to ban the sale and possession of child pornography. Nulonanoj view such laws as stepping onto a dangerous slippery slope.

[Povos do Mar]

Povos do Mar only has a very basic external internet consisting of only software pertaining to e-mails, this internet is uncensored and a person's e-mail address is usually protected via a password to prevent any invasions. The internal internet however, has pages which can freely be edited by anyone, this includes the addition of further information and censorship of information.

[Iglesian Archipelago]

No Internet censorship here.

Censorship (not only Internet censorship; it's all forms of censorship) is unconstitutional in Iglesiantis.

[TurtleShroom]

For specifics on the SHADY infrastructure, see here: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=2492752#p2492752

There is no internet censorship because there isn't an internet to censor.

^ This.

In the early nineties, TurtleShroom's only ISP telecommunications company- Slowsky ISP -secretly wrote a simple text-based FTP-like system to exchange and store files without the Internet. They had the foresight to see that it would be big, and they were prepared to use their rich war chests to gut it. At the time, though, there was no real reason to justify reverting back to an ARPA-Net style system when they had the INTERNET instead... -but then porn came online!

TurtleShroom never had an Internet infrastructure, because the government refused to subsidize that which only the richest of the rich could afford. As such, private companies laid copper lines that granted, at best, 56KB dial-up speeds. Even as Internet usage finally passed the twenty percent mark in the mid-2000s, the government only gave small grants to lay inter-city Internet cables, never once thinking about exiting urban areas. The private sector did finance one mighty "Internet Backbone" cable connecting six major universities, but they only could afford to connect two before they ultimately shelved the project.


Slowsky ISP, Inc. maintained a huge monopoly on TS usage, until a foreign company called "Microsoft" offered to finance the laying of better, non-copper, not dial-up cables in exchange for private companies investing in them and their products.
This direct threat led to Slowsky ISP revealling what TS users had known and avoided: the prelevance of porn online. Saturating the radio and newspapers with their skewed findings, Congress ultimately used its authority to enforce morality to KO the biggest advancement a nation can take in free enterprise.

The Internet was ordered shut down, and Slowsky happily complied, with the universities and Microsoft doing so after court orders. At that time, over sixty five percent of households had some form of computer. Of these, twenty two percent had Internet!

Slowsky ISP played a white horse in shining armor and rushed in with the patented, copyrighted "SHADY" infrastructure, which was designed to share files and data without a real GUI, unless you counted dragging and dropping files in Windows as a GUI. Basically, it was a collosal FTP "cloud", and very similar to the ARPA-Net in simplicity.

The SHADY was intended for business and govenrment use. Individuals discovered online piracy, which the government has had difficulties doing anything about. E-mail was also rolled out in very limited use; less than one percent of all SHADY users have an E-mail address.

The SHADY is actually fully compatible with the Internet, in the same way that the Lynx Text Browser is. Displying no pictures and only words, users can browse websites in a black Command Prompty-like box if they pay the extra money for the "SHADY/ARPA Bridge" software suite. Since that software costs more than a car, it's limited in use because of the obvious price fixing.


There is no Internet in TurtleShroom.

[Equinia]

Internet censorship is rare and usually nonexistent, but content that are too graphic, offensive and extremist are usually censored, but not often.