13 Nations Denounced for Web Censorship
Found on PhysOrg on Tuesday, 07 November 2006
The Internet enemies list numbers 13: Belarus, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
These are the countries singled out by the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders as the worst culprits for systematic online censorship, and they were targeted in the group's 24-hour online protest ending at 5 a.m. Wednesday.
The 13 countries "censor and block online content that criticizes them," the organization said in defining its protest. "Multinationals such as Yahoo! cooperate with the Chinese government in filtering the Internet and tracking down cyber-dissidents."
"It's one thing to turn a blind eye to censorship - it's another thing to collaborate," Morillon said.
While there's no doubt that some nations, such as China, are notorious for censorship, one shouldn't forget that it happens everywhere. Just think about how many times you've seen a link to Chillingeffects on Google. If you are against censorship, you have to accept that people can access everything, reaching from instructions for terrorists to child pornography.