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

Re:Says who?

[Ravear]

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Americans have been using words to cloud meaning rather than enlighten since we changed the Department of War to the Department of Defense. Wiki classes the US as a constitutional republic, & it has some fairly good articles on forms of government. I suppose it doesn't sound as good to say we're exporting republics to Iraq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA

Re:Nobody with talent works for govts

[The_Wilschon]

I think that throughout history, it is actually always the winners who win..... If they then choose to paint themselves as rebels later, then they are rebels to future generations, whether or not they actually were. And besides, anyone fighting for any cause can be construed as rebels against whatever they are opposing. Oh yeah, and Godwin's Law.