Web Censorship on the Increase 132
mid-devonian writes "Close on the heels of the temporary blocking of YouTube by a Turkish judge, a group of academics has published research showing that Web censorship is on the increase worldwide. As many as two dozen countries are blocking content using a variety of techniques. Distressingly, the most censor-heavy countries (which includes China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Burma and Uzbekistan) seem to be passing on their technologically sophisticated techniques to other areas of the world. 'New censorship techniques include the periodic barring of complete applications, such as China's block on Wikipedia or Pakistan's ban on Google's blogging service, and the use of more advanced technologies such as 'keyword filtering', which is used to track down material by identifying sensitive words.'"
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Uh oh (Score:5, Funny)
Democracy, Freedom and Naked Babes (Score:3, Funny)
Just try and search for them, I dare you!
It's necessary. (Score:3, Funny)
In Solviet Russia... (Score:2, Funny)
This is good news (Score:5, Funny)
At this time in history, people all over the world are waking up to the damage that capitalism and "Democracy" have brought to the world. America and Europe and their nineteenth-century ideas of "rights" and "freedom" have brought little else but war, genocide, terrorism, environmental devastation, immoral depravity, exploitation, and chaos.
Small wonder that a recent Beijing Star poll shows that People's Republic of China is the most respected nation on earth. We move forward together harmoniously into twenty-first century, the century of Communism.
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Gee... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:you can't stop me (Score:5, Funny)
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Proud to be an American (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Proud to be an American (Score:5, Funny)
And when they aren't looking, all their kids try to get inside us, sometimes when we don't want it, but we let it happen anyway 'cause it feels so good.
Holy crap (Score:3, Funny)
What quote fits best here... (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, information wants to be free!
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And they're in it with the Saudis, too. Check out what happens when you paste in Arabic text:
See?!?!? It all just disappears!