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A Comparative Study of Internet Censorship

Posted by kdawson on from the maybe-it's-the-third-world-maybe-it's-your-first-time-around dept.

An anonymous reader suggests we visit the home of the watchdog group Global Integrity for a breakdown of online censorship: "Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a US court's recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: This is unheard of in the West, and has only been seen in a handful of the most repressive regimes. Good thing it doesn't work very well... The whole event seems to encapsulate the constant criticism of governance in the United States: that the government has been captured by corporate interests, and that the world-leading rule of law and technocratic mechanisms in place can be hijacked to serve as tools for narrow, wealthy interests."

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  1. Re:"World leading"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not for a long time now. Barely tolerably backwards and getting worse is more the perception in Europe. Why do US people believe their country is a leader in everything, when cold, hard numbers eminently suggest otherwise? Mass-hypnosis?
    Thank you for the non-specific, totally clichéd criticism of my country. Europe is the one continent that we haven't fucked over (in fact we have saved your asses from implosion twice,) and yet you seem to hate us the most. If you want to go onto the list of continents to be fucked over, let us know.
  2. Re:Silly by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Really ? Then why don't you try attracting attention to the statistical correlation between rape cases and muslim population in European cities. The correlation is real (and perfectly calculateable, and as you know this implies that either rapes make someone muslim, or that muslims rape (a lot) more than othres).

    Let's see, why don't we, whether or not slashdot (where the "champions of freedom" rule) not burying this post, shall we ?

    Mob mentality, which is being pushed like hell in all european countries, is the opposite of freedom. And it's gaining. "Human rights" are killing freedom of expression, and freedom of religion in all european countries. We just like to lie about it.

    Same with other figures, like unemployment for example, it's at least triple or quadruple that of the US, depending on the country. But if you just look at the numbers, you'd say they're about equal. This is because we lie (most of the active population that doesn't work is, for various reasons, not counted).