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Internet Regulation Essay

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What do Egypt, India, China, and the United States have in common? They all are subject to some variation of internet regulation from their governments. Internet regulation has become a global issue as many people are questioning what authorities and personal freedoms that infringes on, and on the opposing end many people are for this sort of government “protection”. Here is the United States we are accustomed to being able to look up what we want when we want, and have a whole lot of freedom with our internet access. What we don’t all know is that every year the government asks large companies such as Yahoo and Google to censor or delete websites and topics that their search engines bring up, so that we will not have access to them. “In the last half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove ...

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