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Governmental Censorship of the Internet:Spanish vs. Catalans Case Study

Medina, Manel

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/109261

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Title
Governmental Censorship of the Internet:Spanish vs. Catalans Case Study
Author(s)
Medina, Manel
Issue Date
2020
Keyword(s)
  • Internet
  • governmental censorship
  • online media
  • regulations
Geographic Coverage
Spain
Abstract
This article summarizes the actions taken by the Spanish government pretending to censor information published and applications developed by the Catalan government and some independent activists in order to organize an independence referendum. It describes the goals, the technical approaches, and some countermeasures, analyzing also the level of success achieved. There is also an introduction to the legislation being deployed in the European Union and Spain that could give support to some kind of Internet censorship, and the concerns about the compliance of those regulations with the civil rights of freedom and opinion, which should be guaranteed by governments to citizens. The conclusions suggest some ideas to prevent arbitrary application of censorship practices by national authorities using criteria not widely accepted by the Internet community.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 68 (4). Spring 2020
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109261
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0011
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Copyright 2020 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 68 (4) Spring 2020: Censorship and Information Behavior in the Age of Big Data PRIMARY
Library Trends 68 (4) Spring 2020: Censorship and Information Behavior in the Age of Big Data. Edited by Paul A. Watters.