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Censorship on the Internet
Postolka, Jáchym ; Rychlý, Marek (oponent) ; Očenášek, Pavel (vedoucí práce)
Internet censorship is a very relevant topic in modern society. Increasingly, the internet is being used to control access to information and to monitor its users. The goal of this thesis is to document the methods of censorship in the United Arab Emirates and the reasons why the internet is censored in this country. Additionally, it aims to explore the impacts of this censorship in terms of user access to the internet, how internet censorship restricts access to free information, and how it is used as a tool of repression. Part of this thesis involves designing and implementing a tool to detect the presence of censorship and how the internet is censored. This tool is composed of several tests, each focused on testing a different method of censorship. By modifying the inputs, this tool can be used to test censorship in countries other than the United Arab Emirates. The tool was unable to detect any signs of censorship because it was run on a virtual private server, which due to its location within the network, bypassed the censorship measures of internet service providers, who are the primary means of censorship within this country. To test its functionality as a tool for detection and analysis of censorship in the United Arab Emirates, it would require user level access to the internet within the country.
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