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."

Comments

OMG! They got slashdot!!!!

[mcrbids]

Nothing to see here. Move along

Is there *REALLY* nothing here, or has this been (gasp!) censored?

Depends on who you hear it from.

[ThisIsForReal]

Yeah, according to the BBC report, censorship is spreading. According to my state-run newspaper, everything is just fine, and, wait a second, it says here I should just move right along.

changing face of the internet

[ElephanTS]

Yes. It used to be this :-) now it's this :(