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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. "World leading"? by gweihir · · Score: -1, Troll

    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?

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  2. Re; recontextualize and essentially reboot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Try again, this time in English.

  3. Re:Silly by Just+Another+Poster · · Score: 0, Troll

    Rubbish. The US has less freedom of speech than most European countries. Don't just take my word for it though:

    I won't take your word for it. I also won't take the word of "Reporters Without Borders", who laughably rank Canada, France, Germany and Sweden ahead of the U.S. in terms of "press freedom".

    Show us media in those nations that is as condemning and critical of the nation and government as some American media is of America and the American government.