Abstract
There has been a rapid increase both in the number of users and the number of websites providing data since the invention of Internet; it has become the richest and most used source of information. However, several countries, including Turkey, resort to censorship owing to the fact that anybody can publish on the Internet with sometimes undesirable content. The main purpose of this study is to reveal how primary and secondary school teachers approach Internet censorship in Turkey. The study was conducted with a voluntary group of 2015 primary (855) and secondary (1160) school teachers who had social media accounts in Turkey during the 2013 - 2014 academic year in the spring semester. In the study, a survey was used. The study reveals that 59.4% of teachers think that it is necessary to resort censor the Internet from undesirable content like sexuality and gambling. On the other hand, the vast majority of the teachers (86.6%) do not approve the blocking of websites as they can be used as an educational tool. Moreover, 60.5% believe that blocking of certain Internet websites will not negatively affect education.
Highlights
It can be suggested that the majority teachers support Internet censorship; there isn’t a wide gap between those who approve versus disapprove
In another study done involving participants from Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, over two out of every three people were in support of Internet censorship, keeping in mind that that approximately 90% felt the internet to be a basic human [55]
The percentage of teachers who believe in the necessity of Internet censorship is much higher than that of a study conducted by [48] involving 138 university students
Summary
The websites broadcasting and providing information on the Internet have continued to increase in number with the improvement of the Internet. Some 19.7 thousand domain names existed on the Internet in 1995. As of October 2016, recent estimations by Netcraft have revealed that there are 1.82 billion registered domain names [42, 43]. Based on data from Internetworldstats.com, in 1995 just 16 million people—or 0.4% of world’s population—had Internet access. As of September 2017 that number has exponentially increased to 3.88 billion people—accounting for 51.7% of the world’s population [27, 28]. Examining Internet statistics, it can be observed that Internet use is on the rise both in terms of numbers and active domain names
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