Cencorship & Privacy
In this blog post, I will highlight an example of online censorship and one of online privacy. Cencorship: China’s biggest viral video hit of the year may have been Under the Dome, a documentary about China’s very serious environmental problems produced by CCTV host Chai Jing. The film was made with the government’s apparent consent, but as its popularity grew and more than 200 million people watched it, authorities apparently became nervous. The film was subsequently removed from many of China’s major video streaming platforms, and discussion of it online – which originally was being permitted – started to get censored. Privacy Zoom gave data to third parties without users’ knowledge. In April 2020 piece from The New York Times alleged that popular video conferencing site Zoom engaged in undisclosed data mining during user conversations. The coverage asserted that when a person signed into a meeting, Zoom transmitted their data to a system that matched individuals with thei...