Media Censorship in Pakistan and Australia
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Running head: MEDIA CENSORSHIP IN PAKISTAN AND AUSTRALIAMedia Censorship In Pakistan And AustraliaName of the Student:Name of the University:Author note:
1MEDIA CENSORSHIP IN PAKISTAN AND AUSTRALIAIn modern days, internet has been gaining popularity extraordinarily. It has become avery important tool of communication that brings in significant efficiency and conveniencefor the people. However although internet is comprehensive and is not that easy to limit, mostof the countries are working on its censorship. Censorship can be defined as the officialprohibition of any kind of communication that is considered to threaten the social, politicaland moral order (Antonovsky 2017). Censorship is one of the heavily debated topics allround the world. Every country has its own set of regulations and policies which varysignificantly. The issue of the internet censorship is a very controversial and complex one. Itis considered to be a double-edged sword. This essay will compare and contrast the mediacensorship of Pakistan and Australia. Furthermore, it will elaborate on the discussion ofcensorship issues and current regulation in both the countries. Internet CensorshipInternet censorship is all about suppressing or controlling the things that can beaccessed or published on the internet that are enacted by the regulators or by their selfinitiative. However, internet censorship basically takes place in order to stop people fromseeing the harmful and sensitive content and for promoting particular idea of religion orpolitics and to control the internet related crimes (Clark et al. 2017). According to severalstudies, people use to value the contents more that are usually restricted to access and themaximum of them include political, sexual and social contents. Similarities and dissimilarities in terms of internet censorship: The similarities include that in both the countries, the contents on internet includingvideos, images or tagline are either banned or blurred by the government if they seems toviolate any rule or regulation or promoted violence among the youths. In both the countries,restrictions are prompted as well. They have the complete right to control the violence and
2MEDIA CENSORSHIP IN PAKISTAN AND AUSTRALIAmiscues that are happening through the social media platforms in order to protect thecountrymen from crimes and bomb threatening. They have blocked several websites. Thegovernments in both the countries have imposed compulsory filtering at the ISP (InternetService Provider) level. In Pakistan, the PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) isresponsible to control and maintain every communication technologies in the country(Jahangir and Shah 2016). It has blocked the country access to more than 370 websitesincluding YouTube and twitter. A bill was also passed to ban using Facebook as well.However, this is not the case in Australia. The Australian government too has banned manyof the websites in order to protect the children form harmful contents that are available on theinternet and has but the list is less than that of Pakistan. However, the list of banned websitesincludes that of Yes Movies, Vumoo, Cartoon HD, The Dare TV, Watch Episodes etc. The dissimilarities include that most of the popular social media platforms areblocked in Pakistan, which is not the case in Australia. Pakistan government has blockedaccess to YouTube, twitter and Facebook (Marchant et al. 2016). With the same,downloading through torrent is censored and is illegal in Australia. Television censorshipSince television has become official in 1930s, there have been several geographicaldisparities related to the degree or level o which different countries watch television contents.Hence, different processes have been implemented by the governments of different countriesin order to prevent these inappropriate contents from reaching the audiences and this isknown as censorship. Similarities and dissimilarities in terms of internet censorship:
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