I have faced internet censorship in grade school, high school, and I am curious if I currently face any I am unaware of today. I remember growing up on computers and many of my classmates were as skilled as me at typing and writing code. We did not hack our way around the censorship but some students could find a program or process that allowed us to bypass the firewalls. I have never been in a school that has had a firewall I was unable to bypass and this definitely is something I have taken for granted. One of the most interested and recent cases of online censorship was the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring was the way that social media and our networks allowed people to overthrow the government in Egypt and Libya. There is a quote that stated " We use Facebook to schedule protests, Twitter or coordinate, and Youtube to tell the world." This was understood eventually by the government and internet access was completely cut off for large periods of time. I believe that we are living in a world more connected than ever and when people use the resources available they can make much more of a difference than ever before.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/twitter-blocked-egypt/
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