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Social filtering is censorship of topics that are held to be antithetical to accepted societal norms. [11] In particular censorship of child pornography and content deemed inappropriate for children enjoys very widespread public support and such content is subject to censorship and other restrictions in most countries. Examples include:
For example, a social media platform may restrict speech that it considers to be hate speech more broadly than is required by US law, [107] and may restrict speech that it considers to be harassment and verbal abuse. Restriction of hate speech and harassment on social media is the subject of debate.
Currently, social media censorship appears primarily as a way to restrict Internet users' ability to organize protests. For the Chinese government, seeing citizens unhappy with local governance is beneficial as state and national leaders can replace unpopular officials.
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
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“In Turkey, for example, a lot of social media sites have been blocked for years, and having a VPN that gets around that censorship is something that nearly every single person in Turkey does.”
Pervasive censorship or surveillance: A country is classified as engaged in pervasive censorship or surveillance when it often censors political, social, and other content, is engaged in mass surveillance of the Internet, and retaliates against citizens who circumvent censorship or surveillance with imprisonment or other sanctions. A country is ...
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.