Risks and Poses of Contemporary Censorship. The Case of Social Networks
Risks and Poses of Contemporary Censorship. The Case of Social Networks

Summary/Abstract: Throughout history censorship has taken many forms and has been used with similar intent, all the while depending on the technological, material and political resources of the respective times. In the information age, where digitization is extremely important, censorship can take another form, an unforeseen, even unexpected one, different from the classic models used in other historical periods. If in real life, an individual was constrained by social norms, by accepted behavioral conduct but also by a chiseled language, on the Internet these constraints did not have much value in the past. We can talk about an environment where one could be whoever wanted to be and say whatever they wanted, and in the worst-case scenario they were laughed at. However, things are no longer like that at the moment. We can say that censorship starts from two directions. The first, from the abuse of the algorithm that can wrongly identify users' posts and then correct them, and the second from the abuse of other users, who if they do not agree with the information posted by others, they can send a complaint to the social networks to have them deleted and the user corrected and/or punished, in many cases unfairly. Next, we can also talk about a certain intensity of censorship, the greater the intensity, the more it restricts individual freedoms. So, we can say that the objective of this paper is to identify different types of censorship and expose how they impact certain freedoms. In this direction, the biggest risk would be the fact that one, if not the most important right that man has, that of free expression, is endangered by these modern poses of censorship.

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