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Reporters Without Borders Internet Annual Report
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. "
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)
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig
'Nuff said?
of Jordan Huubard
My grandfathers and their respective fellow Canadian and American servicemen were in fact better that the Germans they were opposing in World War Two. That "self-centered egotism" spared quite a few Jews who were rescued from the camps. If you don't like it, tough shit.
The U.S. government doesn't control the media, btw. It doesn't have that much power, for one. Media censor themselves because it is profitable to do so. The government doesn't tell General Motors to try to make a profit as part of some conspiracy. Neither does the government tell the Wall Street Journal to make a profit as part of some conspiracy. News corporations understand perfectly well that profitability requires that they not undermine there own authority as corporations. No government intervention is required to goad corporations (including news corporations) to pursue their own interests.