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".

Slashdot in weird mode...

Re:OMG! I know, why folks insist on...?

[OldHawk777]

Freedom of religion is politically/financially expedient for domination of humanity/global agendas (war, economics, genocide, famine...).

At a recent USA hosted new-world political convention a Jewish Rabbi said to a Baptist Minister (who agreed) "One nation under god is a great thing, secularism be damned." A near by Imam replied; "YES, may they burn in a hell, created by the faithful, for all infidels that oppose the will of any GOD!" A Catholic Cardinal and Orthodox Bishop acquaintance overhearing the previous comments chimed in with; "after converting all of them with torture, we need to crucify prior to them going to that hell slowly (in a whisper we need to make sure they suffer). The Buddhist and Hindu holly-men (much like the priest, preachers, ministers...) smiled and bowed then recommended in harmony; "any perfect young boys and men should be kept as service slaves for a few years". The American Televangelist at the podium in the highest pulpit almost screamed in a gleeful plea to the Goatish flock; "Can I get a Praise The Ficking Lord, from this great congregation of pedophiles, sodomites, proxy-murders, and thieves!"

Okay, you're right the Televangelist would only say PTL ... I inserted the "Ficking" word, but it was his Freudian on the "congregation of pedophiles, sodomites, proxy-murders, and thieves." Maybe God made sure he spoke the truth like the other attendees.

Anyway "One nation under god is a great thing", I just wish it did not command and serve politics/plutocrats of evil by greedy, fart-eating, shit-sucking, ass-kissers of the world.

!HAVEFUN!