Censorship is Changing the Face of the Internet

Lucas123 writes "Amnesty International is warning that the Internet "could change beyond all recognition" because state-sponsored censorship has spread from a handful of countries to dozens of governments that apply mandated net filtering, and because companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have remained complicit, according to a BBC story. '"More and more governments are realising the utility of controlling what people see online and major internet companies, in an attempt to expand their markets, are colluding in these attempts,"' said Tim Hancock, Amnesty's campaign director."

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Re:Informed, hopefully

[superpulpsicle]

US censorship is very different. Be sure there are political stuff censored. But it is done under the notion that we can "trust" the government's judgement. We bitch about it, but we know we can't sue the government.

The stuff that gets REALLY censored is the animal abuse in slaughterhouses, the toxicity of water supplies by water plant companies, radioactive waste leaking into soil. This is the stuff that is much harder to come by, cause they cause so much controversy.

head explodes

[Anonymous Coward]

You spelled Microsoft with a dollar sign, and you linked to Richard Stallman's "blog" (if one can call it that). Do you actually read that? With all due respect to the man, if leaned slightly more to the left he'd actually collide with the right. But seriously, please tell us what you think about Bill Gates and the RIAA, please? Heh.

You remind me of a girl I used to date before I got married. She insisted that piercing the hell out of her body made her look more "attractive", and anyone who told her otherwise was automatically added to the "list of people who hate me".

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