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Introduction
This essay aims to discuss the topic internet censorship. An explanation of the topic is
provided in this essay along with the benefits of internet censorship for the society is
discussed in this essay. The operation of internet censorship is described briefly in this essay.
The people who are benefitted and the people who are negatively affected from the internet
censorship is briefly discussed in this essay. The process by which the society need to deal
with the internet censorship in the future is briefly discussed in this essay. Some of the
particular challenges that are faced by the professionals of information systems is discussed
in this essay. Lastly, this essay concludes with an appropriate conclusion for this essay.
Internet censorship is the implementation of control in the publishing, viewing or the
accessing of the explicit on the internet that are permitted by regulators or several other
initiatives (Ensafi et al. 2014).
Discussion
The process of implementing preventive control on the websites or on any content
that is accessible in the internet is referred as the internet censorship. This restriction is
deployed in form of the law, edit or any kind of regulation that is placed by the particular
government (Khattak et al. 2016). The reach of the internet censorship is discovered to be
varying from country to country on the basis of the rules and the regulations that are imposed
in various countries.
Operation of internet censorship
The controls of internet censorship at the most basic level is the restricting of the access to
the explicit content on the internet from any organisation or any entity of the government that
can impact negatively on the viewers or the society (Crete-Nishihata, Deibert and Senft

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2013). It might be blocking access to the restricting the utilisation of the complete platform,
copyrighted information, or any sensitive content. The users of computer requires a
connection to the internet. The ISPs are the major internet providers that cluster together the
users of internet and then serve as the gateway to internet. They can effectively work as the
censor or totally take out internet if the government requires them to. Once the internet is
shutdown by the ISP, the physical system of internet seems to be decentralised but if the
individual is still connected to the internet, the services needs to be bought from the ISP and
then use any university system or corporate system and they act as the central location of
routing and a choke point to the content (Dalek et al. 2013). This mechanism is commonly
applied in the countries where the government want to restrict the information that is received
by the citizens of the country. Some of the methods that are commonly used for restricting
the contents on internet are as follows:
Packet filtering: terminates the transmission of the information when the strings of the
keywords are discovered.
IP address blocking: blocks the access to particular addresses
URL filtering: the scanning of the URL for keywords are done and if alarming content is
discovered then the address is blocked
DNS blocking: blocks the access to the domain name of the website
Computer network attacks: The DoS attacks are used for preventing the access to several
services when it is discovered to be a potential attack and it can block more than just any
marked location.
Connection reset: if any connection was blocked by the filter, any other sites would be
blocked for significant time even if it is an accepted communication.