Question

In the context of Internet content that some countries prohibit, discuss how the "responsibility to prevent access" differs from the "authority to prevent entry". (A) Define "responsibility to prevent access" in your own words (B) Define "authority to prevent entry" in your own words (C) Discuss how one differs from the other (D) Provide examples

Answer 1

Answer:

What would Noam Chomsky have said?

Explanation:

Noam Chomsky probably would have said that responsibility sounds better than authority but it actually means the same: internet censorship.

A The term responsibility gives moral ground to the person or authority: in plain English it says that, because internet is not good for you, we decided to protect you from it.

B Authority doesn´t sound that nice and, as all parents know, is very often contraproductive. But powerful regimes probably don´t care.

C The two terms differ in the sense that - as Noam Chomsky explained in Keeping the rabble in line - responsibility to prevent access is more likely to be accepted by the general public than authority to etc.

D A pre-internet example is the attempts of the Sovjet Union to keep The Beatles away from Russian youth.

An internet example is preventing access to topics that might put in danger the control of the authoritarian regime.