Internet Censorship In

Southeast Asia

By: Binh Tran

Class: MIS 3538

Prof.: Steven. Johnson

www.libertarianpunk.com

Freedom Of Speech?

America

• The right to speak out of their mind

• No fear when talk about politics or religion

• Freedom to use social network as a tool to promote views

Asia

• Under censorship and government control

• Not allow to use social networks to promote politics or religion

• Being watched by the government

Facts

• Thailand controls on social media

sites (Youtube, Facebook or Twitter)

• Chiranuch is a webmaster, arrested

for being too slow to delete anti-

royal messages (<20minutes)

• Could be put in jail for 20 years if

convicted

• China censors search results from

Google

• Vietnam censors social media for

any information that involves politics

www.inquisitr.com

Social Networking Statistics Asia

Pacific – Comscore Report

Image credit:www.socialtrakr.com

The Results

• Effect on the users – Lose of confident

– Lose of trust

– New generation lag behind

• Effect on global economy– Profits

– Ability to expand

• Hurt the country – Investors afraid to invest on the countries

– Scared of involving politics

Resolution

• Protest the government

– Social media against government in Egypt

– Effective result

• Should there be more revolutions?

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Any Questions?