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Interesting look at censorship and various factors of censorship from a historical perspective that are argued to have contributed to cyber censorship today..."The rule historically has been, and continues to be, repression and suppression of disfavored ideas."

This opinion piece discusses a secret trade treaty called the Trans Pacific Partnership and whether it is a form of extreme censorship. According to this piece, the treaty has been compared to the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Activist in china have found a way to circumvent government censorship

An article from "The Guardian" about how Google could end web censorship in China explained by Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt was quoted during a speech in Washington.

Fascinating article from the Wall Street Journal on Google and how they are handling China's censorship laws.

(A little outdated, 2012) This is an interesting article about possible international telecommunication regulations; and how countries have been preparing for The World Conference on International Telecommunications for months "behind closed doors". Although the idea seems easy enough, I do not believe that all the involved nations could reach a single standard when it comes to rights of speech and censorship. Even more so, if a treaty was made how would this effect the laws and citizens of the individual countries who already have laws in place?

This article by the NY times back in 2010 explains how China's censorship on the internet, mainly google is creating a wide variety of issues.