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Internet censorship doesn't only exist in places like China and Iran.

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It exists in various forms in the West too.

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For example in Canada the Supreme Court ruled on a temporary injunction requiring that the results of

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a competing company be removed not only from Google dossier but instances of Google in other countries

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as well.

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European courts ruled in favor of a Spanish man who brought a case against Google due to search results

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that contained embarrassing financial information.

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The case has become widely known as the right to be forgotten.

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The court ruled that Google and other search engines should remove results that appear to be inadequate

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irrelevant or no longer relevant or excessive in relation to the purpose for which they were processed.

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In the light of the time that has elapsed an Argentinian model took both Google and Yahoo to court to

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demand the search engines remove images linking her to pornographic sites.

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Internet use in the UK are prohibited from accessing a range of web sites by default.

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Access is filtered by the Internet service providers.

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You have to opt out of the ISP filtering to gain access to the content.

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In the US.

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There has been a number of government mandated attempts to regulate content that have been barred on

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First Amendment grounds.

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Often after a lengthy legal battle the exit pressure indirectly where it cannot directly censor content

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restrictions tend to rely more on the removal of content than blocking.

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Most often these controls rely upon the involvement of private parties backed by state encouragement

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or the threat of legal action.

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In contrast to most of the rest of the world where I espies are subject to state mandates most content

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regulation in the United States occurs at the private or volunteer level.

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The floodgates could be opening for Western censorship.

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The question of the right to be forgotten versus censorship is a complex one.

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But understand that your search engines and your news papers will be used as a tool to enforce this

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censorship and this is a potential threat to you depending on who you are and where you are.