This document contains a series of questions and answers about topics related to internet censorship and regulation. It discusses key organizations and terms like IWF (Internet Watch Foundation), ISP (Internet Service Provider), and "cleanfeed" filtering system. Important dates mentioned include 1996 when an ISP was raided for obscenity, 2012 when David Cameron discussed mandatory web filters, and 2009 when extending cleanfeed filtering to certain websites was discussed. Reasons given for censorship include offense and harm. Views of figures like David Gauntlett on media harm studies and John Gilmore on internet routing around censorship are also summarized.

1. Oscar, Sam and Wada

2. What does IWF stand for?
Internet Watch Foundation

3. Over the past few years with in
online media regulation what has
been referred to decentralised
network
Internet

4. What does ISP stand for?
Internet Service Provider

5. When did police, encouraged
by the politicians, raid an
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
and try to prosecute for
„obscenity‟?
1996

6. When did David Cameron
publicly discuss his plans to
introduce a mandatory web
filter system?
December 2012

7. Why is it so hard to censor the
internet?
Due to the size of the internet

8. What does the „cleanfeed‟ filter
system refer to ?
All websites containing child
pornography are filtered by the
whole of the UK‟s Internet service
providers

9. Who said that violent teenage
offenders generally watched
less TV and film, and were less
likely to use technology than
their peers?
David Gauntlett

10. What two reasons censorship is
justified by?
Offense and harm

11. In what year did Graham Coutts
blame the murder of Jane
Longhurst on his download of
internet pornography?
2003

12. In July 2007, which British man
was arrested and prosecuted in
the UK based on the Obscenity
Act, for publishing a written story
to publish on a US site, entitled
„Girls (Scream) Aloud‟?
Darryn Walker

13. What did media theorist David
Gauntlett say about the studies
into the harm of media?
Many studies show correlation, but not causation.

14. Why did the government begun to
force ISPs to block specific filesharing sites such as Newzbin
sites and The Pirate Bay, in 2011
and 2012?
Because these sites allegedly made pirated films and music
available for download.

15. In what year did the UK
Government petition to and
successfully remove 5 Youtube
accounts for terrorist materials?
2012

16. What are the two key reasons
that justifies media censorship?
Offence and Harm
Offence- As seen on twitter when Liam Stacey tweeted „LOL. F***
Muamba. He‟s dead.‟ After Fabrice Muamba suffered an on-field heart
attack.
Harm- This is when consuming a media work will cause you harm
because you are likely to recreate what you see (effects theory). For
e.g. a teenager might think it would be reasonable to carry out violent
act just because they saw their favourite character doing it.

17. What did David Cameron call
for on social media in situations
such as the London Riots?
Censoring or even temporary “switch- off” of social media

18. Some politicians discussed the
idea of extending the cleanfeed
to block which websites in 2009,
which has not yet occurred?
Certain Terrorist websites

19. Which social medias were
extensively during the London
Riot to coordinate violent
actions?
Facebook and Blackberry Messenger

20. Which laws apply to online
content, and are being
increasingly used to stop
defamatory online articles and
statements?
Libel Laws and „super- injunctions‟

21. What did John Gilmore
famously state about the
internet?
„the net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it‟