a Wikipedia readership survey show that people abstain largely from reading some articles on terrorist groups after the mass surveillance revelations of NSA in 2013, for fear of being redflagged as potential troublemakers . This is an entirely new form of self-censorship, and media coverage of it has failed to see and explore this new form of self-censorship that has developed in the fear of being redflagged a new technical landscape.
study, as first reported by the Washington Post and reported / discussed on Reddit, highlight this as a problem of self-censorship affect the freedom of expression, equal rights in the title. It's wrong. It is something else.
The Intercept also highlights the history and explores how it suppresses the freedoms of expression and thought. But it's still not what is self-censored here. Instead, what we see is something entirely new.
The classic self-censorship is to refrain from speaking. When speaking to you is in trouble, formal or informal, it interferes with freedom of speech and expression . This form of self-censorship has existed since ancient times - there was always taboo subjects where we need to be cautious. Sometimes they are social, sometimes they are political. It's like the old Soviet joke:
Three people sit in a cell at the headquarters of the KGB. The first man said, "I'm here because I criticized Karl Radek. And you? "The second man said." I'm here because I spoke in favor of Karl Radek. " The third man said: "I'm Karl Radek"
Speaking of the KGB, they created a second form of self-censorship By placing agents provocateurs.. in the general population in the Soviet Union and its puppet states, where KGB agents would demand on vodka that really sucked communism thing and soon anyone who subscribes to the statement raided and arrested, they created a fear of an alliance with the dissidents - the KGB created a fear of having bad friends They created a self-censorship that has attacked freedom of federation
.. the FBI had yet a third form to go when they started attacking libraries and demanded to know what books were borrowed by that, something that librarians fought as a profession and created the "mandate of canary" , now commonly used in IT. Had the FBI began redflagging people on this basis, and librarians fought back, it may have created this third form.
But it is not until now that this third form surfaces really. Imagine you are holding an encyclopedia (physical) in your hand, and you are afraid of read some articles censor your behavior to look away from them. If you read a book, you avoid some pages . If you read a newspaper, you avoid read certain subjects . Here's what the study shows Wikipedia is happening. This is the self-censorship of freedom of information , and it is something totally new and destructive that the NSA has caused.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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