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Details On Worldwide Surveillance and Filtering

Posted by samzenpus on from the eyes-eyes-eveywhere dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Help Net Security is running an interview with Rafal Rohozinski, a founder and principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative, which investigates, exposes and analyzes Internet filtering and surveillance practices all over the world. Rafal provides insight on the process of assessing the state of surveillance and filtering in a particular country and discusses differences related to these issues in several regions, touching especially the United States and Europe. In the US, censorship is more difficult to implement if for no other reason than the court systems offer greater protections for freedom of speech. However, in both places surveillance is on the rise particularly as law-enforcement agencies become more adept at working in the cyber domain."

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  1. Just Remember. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When we do it, it's to protect the children from porn and terrorism. When the godless commies do it, it's just plain evil.

    1. Re:Just Remember. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Really? I thought those was US congressmen!

      Shennanigans in the cloakroom, Shennanigans in the bathroom, Shennanigans on the internet just seems logical!

      They want the cameras so they can spy on us naked! Those pervs!

    2. Re:Just Remember. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hopefully the next time they talk to Jesus, he tells them to stop using table-based layouts. It's just unchristian.

  2. "They" don't give a damn about the law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the US, censorship is more difficult to implement if for no other reason than the court systems offer greater protections for freedom of speech.

    In the US, there are big telecommunication carriers who illegally spy on American citizens, and they go scot-free. The law is a weak line of defense when the government colludes against it. When the "leaders" have set their minds on something, it's going to happen. Laws will be changed, circumvented and ignored. There must be a strong factual defense line. In the case of communication that's cryptography, privacy enhancing routing protocols, redundancy and networks in the hands of the people.

  3. Re:Nice job going for the cheap +5 by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It has those protections because people are so sensitive about those backward steps. Once people stop caring so much (which may have already happened with most people), those freedoms will be eroded.

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