Reporters Without Borders Internet Annual Report

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 4, 2006 @09:27AM from the it-doesn't-look-good dept.

kratei writes "The BBC is running a report discussing the Reporters Without Borders internet annual report 2006. The RWB study details and decries the rising tide of net censorship and lays the blame squarely on the west as the source for the technology that allows repressive regimes to stifle freedom on the web." From the article: "China's success at censorship means it has effectively produced a "sanitised" version of the internet for its 130 million citizens that regularly go online. The wide-ranging scrutiny also means that it is the biggest jailer of so-called cyber dissidents. RSF estimates that 62 people in China have been jailed for what they said online. "

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Hey, I know by Oldsmobile · 2006-05-04 09:31 · Score: 0, Troll

Hey I know! Lets bash China again. Slashdot is just soooo much fun when we get to take it out on China like it was some sort of virtual nation-pinjata thingy!

(Of course we should all forget that we don't actually know a damn thing about China)

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You wouldn't happen to be a US Citizen, would you? by mmell · 2006-05-04 09:53 · Score: 0, Troll

See: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
'Nuff said?