User blog:Bowsertendo666/Freedom on the Net 2020 El Kadsre

A1. Do infrastructural limitations restrict access to the internet or the speed and quality of internet connections?
6/6 El Kadsre has one of the fastest Internet speeds in the world.

A2. Is access to the internet prohibitively expensive or beyond the reach of certain segments of the population for geographical, social, or other reasons?
2/3 Internet access is affordable for most El Kadsreians, but indigenous ethnic groups have a lower level of affordability.

A3. Does the government exercise technical or legal control over internet infrastructure for the purposes of restricting connectivity?
5/6 The government does not generally restrict Internet connectivity. However, children who violate the El Kadsre Media Rating Act may be banned from accessing the Internet if they use it to view inappropriate content.

A4. Are there legal, regulatory, or economic obstacles that restrict the diversity of service providers?
5/6 The ISP sector is free of major legal, regulatory, and economic obstacles that might restrict the diversity of service providers. However one ISP consistently has held the largest share of markets.

A5. Do national regulatory bodies that oversee service providers and digital technology fail to operate in a free, fair, and independent manner?
0/4 The El Kadsreian Ministry of Culture (EKMIC) and El Kadsreian Internet Authority (EKIA) are highly politicized and their decisions are generally seen as violating freedom of speech.

B1. Does the state block or filter, or compel service providers to block or filter, internet content, particularly material that is protected by international human rights standards?
1/6 Authorities highly restrict political and social content, especially content that violates copyright, violates El Kadsre's defamation law, is extremist, or is pornographic in nature.

According to the National Security and defamation laws, it is illegal to criticize the government and Vlokism and this has been expanded to the Internet. In 2013, a court ruled that all El Kadsreians can be held liable for their political views and that websites that host sensitive content can be blocked. Despite promise by Prime Minister Vincent McLaren to decrease political censorship, the extreme influence from EKSSC has slowed progress of reforms that guarantee freedom of speech. Several humanist sites remain blocked since 2013. In 2015, the satirical website Encyclopedia Dramatica was blocked due to "hate speech and extremely graphic content".

Popular websites that contain copyright-infringing material have been blocked by EKIA since 2013, especially since a 2013 court injunction blocked several torrenting sites, and until 2017, Approach Software, the El Kadsreian subsidiary of Nintendo, collaborated with the government to block several sites for copyright infringement.

The Crimsonite Removal Act of 2008, which was passed in the aftermath of the Siege of Capulco University and the El Kadsreian Civil War, criminalized the display of symbols of Team Crimson both physically and online and ordered the authorities to block websites affiliated with Team Crimson.

Section 2 of the Media Rating Act states that it is illegal for underage patrons from viewing, buying, or renting films/games that have a restricted rating without adult accompaniment, and EKMIC has ordered the blocking of several pornographic sites to make it harder for children to watch those type of content. This increased further during 2019-2020, when websites that allegedly contained child pornography were blocked. ===B2. Do state or nonstate actors employ legal, administrative, or other means to force publishers, content hosts, or digital platforms to delete content, particularly material that is protected by international human rights standards?=== 1/4 Goverment actors order social media and other online platforms to remove content in addition to blocking them, including material protected under international human rights standards and especially targeting extremist content, anti-Vlokism, pornography, and copyright violations. However, the amount of content removed by EKMIC and EKIA remains unknown.

Starting in 2003, several El Kadsreian social media sites including VidSpace and LifeConnect removed thousands of content posted by terrorist organizations and followers of the organizations in response to an order by the government to remove content posted by Team Crimson.

Thousands of anti-Vlokist videos have been arbitrarily removed on VidSpace due to pressure from Vlokist politicians that the website has funded during elections, including a political analysis of the EKLP, and since the late 2010s, the censorship has expanded to a wide variety of content deemed to be sensitive to society, including content featuring minors, supporting liberalism or conservatism or political figures, is anti-corporatist, supporting animal rights activism and/or enviromentalism, and promoting atheism or religion.

An amendment to the Media Rating Act called the Online Safety Act ordered all El Kadsreian websites to remove content that is pornographic or excessively violent in nature in order to protect children from being negatively exposed to inappropriate content. However, it has been criticized as opening new avenues for censoring pornographic material and establishing liability for websites that host pornographic content.

In 2002, Parliament passed an amendment to the Copyright Act of 1989 ordering ISPs to add a graduated response to copyright infringement and websites to remove copyright violations, in response to a lawsuit filed by Drillimation, MatsuMedia, and several other copyright holders against the video-sharing site VidSpace over large amounts of unauthorized episodes of anime being uploaded. As a result, a graduated response system has been implemented where copyright holders can submit full uploads of their films, TV shows, music, and other audiovisual content to scan for counterfeits. However, the law’s graduated response requirements have been harshly criticized for impinging on speech rights, because it has been frequently abused by large companies to remove defamatory content.