Reporters Without Borders: Internet Enemies
This is the same news that you hear about everywhere else. Of course, it's not just these country's that are internet enemies.
Take a look in your own backyard, if you can.
There might even be some interesting things that you may find out about your own country and how it keeps, or at least tries to, control the flow of information or data.
Check it out:
According to Reporters Without Borders.....
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“The 12 ‘Enemies of the Internet’ - Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam - have all transformed their Internet into an Intranet in order to prevent their population from accessing ‘undesirable’ online information,”....
North Korea should be pretty obvious. It'd be pretty fortunate for you to even own a computer considering the amount of money that country spends on national defense projects and armaments, let alone even be asked by a person in an offficial position, 'why' you want a computer.
Saudi Arabia. That's not much of a surprise either.
considering that country's human rights abuses as made clear by such organizations as the Human Rights Watch and another group you've all heard of a.k.a Amnesty International and a few others as well.
These organizations have made critical reports of Saudi Arabia's various political, legal, and social domains. That includes limitations of women in that country.
so a Saudi national such as a reporter or even just an ordinary citizen that want's to get critical information on the Saudi Arabian kingdon obviously is going to be limited, yes??
Makes sense??
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...“All these countries distinguish themselves not only by their ability to censor online news and information but also by their virtually systematic persecution of troublesome Internet users,”
YOu understand what I'm saying now with respect to Human rights abuses??
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A total of 70 cyber-dissidents are currently detained because of what they posted online. China is the world’s biggest prison for cyber-dissidents, followed by Vietnam and Iran......
To see China there is no surprise either. From what I recall reading on the news last year, some Cyber-cafe's actually do have Cyber-cops stationed in the area where customers drink their latte's and cruise the internet.
To make sure your not going on the internet where you're not supposed to go, of course.
Did you know that the firm that ensures China's filtering of the internet's website base is from a Western nation??
The US in fact.
I can't recall the name of the firm that makes to help filter internet sites for China, but I do recall that it is a firm from that country.
Now is that a surprise??
One last thing:
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......Reporters Without Borders has placed 10 other governments “under surveillance” for adopting worrying measures that could open the way to abuses. The organisation draws particular attention to Australia and South Korea, where recent measures may endanger online free expression.
Australia was in the news recently regarding internet filtering and freedom of expression.
IMHO, I think laws would help best as opposed to filtering the internet.
here's the link: