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The 13 Enemies of the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-get-to-pick dept.

Hennell writes "Reporters without borders has just released its annual list of internet enemies, a list of countries 'that systematically violate online free expression.' A couple of countries have been removed, but Egypt has been added. A detailed summary can be read on the BBC Website." From that article: "The blacklist is published annually but it is the first time RSF has organized an online protest to accompany the list. 'We wanted to mobilize net users so that when we lobby certain countries we can say that the concerns are not just ours but those of thousands of internet users around the world,' said a spokesman for RSF. Many of those on the internet blacklist are countries that are regularly criticized by human rights groups, such as China and Burma."

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  1. What,, no US? Cuba? by russotto · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought journalists thought the US was the root of all evil and Cuba was a paradise with wonderful medical care whose only problems were caused by US oppression? Something's wrong here.

  2. Well guess who didn't make the list? by MikeRT · · Score: 0, Troll

    The United States. God bless our founding fathers for writing the first amendment so clearly. It makes targeting scoundrels that much easier. Anyone who gets fundamentally confused by it is either too stupid to function or evil. Makes fighting back a lot easier because unlike in Europe, if the day ever comes, patriots here could shoot the censors with a clear conscience.

    1. Re:Well guess who didn't make the list? by Jose · · Score: 0, Troll

      thats funny, the US is clearly on the list. they are number 14. I wonder if the page gets filtered if you view it from the States. I was wondering why the headline read "the 13 enemies of the internet" instead of 14!!

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  3. But I thought? by argStyopa · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wait, I thought that the United States was the world's worst police state? Der Fuhrer George Bush and his Goebbels-analogue Rove, along with their glassy-eyed and jackbooted minions crushing all internal dissent with waves of black helicopters or stampeding Religious Fundamentalists?

    I say: WTF?

    Clearly, they 'got to' RSF and co-opted them. It's a tragedy when attention-whores, er, I mean "journalists" are afraid to 'speak truth to power'.

    I know, I know......-842 Troll.

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  4. Need to add one honorable mention by Quila · · Score: 1, Troll

    The United Nations, because censorship will be world-wide if it does get control of the Internet.

  5. No, +1 Funny by aquatone282 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know, I know......-842 Troll.

    I'd give you a +1 Funny, but I blew all my points down-modding the "Progressive" trolls that flocked to the "HBO's Hacking Democracy Available Online" yesterday.

    Thanks for the laugh though.

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  6. Re:Some missing by Ant+P. · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good point. Where is America on that list? It should be #1.