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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[First post withheld at government request] by mmell · 2006-05-04 09:29 · Score: 5, Funny

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Proxies by CptChipJew · 2006-05-04 09:32 · Score: 5, Interesting

The people I know in China all claim to use Japanese and Korean proxies to get access to everything. Anybody know if this is true? If so, then you can be assured that plenty of people are doing this, and largely making the PRC efforts pointless.

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Re:Hey, I know by Vyvyan+Basterd · 2006-05-04 09:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

Yeah, I forgot. We must first spend years studying the socio-economics of china before we can say it's wrong to throw people in jail for their opinions. How silly of me to forget that.