{"id":13820,"date":"2012-03-02T10:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13820"},"modified":"2013-05-31T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:07:49","slug":"the-ugly-twins-censorship-and-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/the-ugly-twins-censorship-and-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"The ugly twins: censorship and surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/mar\/02\/censorship-inseperable-from-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> in the <em>Guardian<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There was a time when you could censor without spying. When Britain banned the publication of James Joyce&#8217;s <em>Ulysses<\/em> in the 1920s and 1930s, the ban took the form on a prohibition on the sale of copies of the books. Theoretically, this entailed opening some imported parcels, and it certainly imposed a constraint on publishers and booksellers. It was undoubtedly awful. But we&#8217;ve got it worse today.<\/p>\n<p>Jump forward 80 years. Imagine that you want to ban <em>www.jamesjoycesulysses.com<\/em> due to a copyright claim from the Joyce estate. Thanks to the Digital Economy Act and the provision it makes for a national British copyright firewall, we&#8217;re headed for a system where entertainment companies can specify URLs that have &#8220;infringing&#8221; websites, and a national censorwall will block everyone in the country from visiting those sites.<\/p>\n<p>In order to stop you from visiting <em>www.jamesjoycesulysses.com<\/em>, the national censorwall must intercept all your outgoing internet requests and examine them to determine whether they are for the banned website. That&#8217;s the difference between the old days of censorship and our new digital censorship world. Today, censorship is inseparable from surveillance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow in the Guardian: There was a time when you could censor without spying. When Britain banned the publication of James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses in the 1920s and 1930s, the ban took the form on a prohibition on the sale of copies of the books. Theoretically, this entailed opening some imported parcels, and it certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,28,15],"tags":[459,135,186,58,154,911],"class_list":["post-13820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-media","category-technology","tag-censorship","tag-copyright","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-internet","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3AU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20505,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820\/revisions\/20505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}