The 13 Enemies of the Internet

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."

Comments

What,, no US? Cuba?

[russotto]

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.

Re:Dear Fellow Americans,

[InsaneProcessor]

Yes, there are good people here. That is why we voted to continue the war on terror and screw those who oppose said war!

Well guess who didn't make the list?

[MikeRT]

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.

Re:Well guess who didn't make the list?

[Jose]

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!!

But I thought?

[argStyopa]

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.

Need to add one honorable mention

[Quila]

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

No, +1 Funny

[aquatone282]

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.

Slashdot Subjective "Scoring" = Censorship

[cannuck]

The intellectual geniuses who score posts here are the best example of censorship on the net - censorship that fascists could only dream about. It's time to dump Slashdot's so-called "scoring". Which in fact is an effort to censor.

Just in case you-all don't know - scoring in North American schools was brought in as a replacement to whipping for not knowing the right answer in the school room. Seems like the intellectual geniuses here - the whipping people - like to whip people by low scores - when either they don't agree with a post or don't like the "tone". In either case it's censorship.

Re:Some missing

[Ant P.]

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