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Countries Ranked In Terms of Internet Freedom
msum sent in a report that ranks 37 nations around the would in terms of their internet freedom. Estonia takes gold, the US silver, and Bahrain comes in last.
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Isn't this just a repost of http://slashdot.org/story/11/04/21/1946253/Australia-Ranked-Fourth-In-Internet-Freedom?
Are you from Boston?
Around the would?
How about "around the won't" like in "I won't read this article" because subby is an idiot.
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You mean Iran? Did you even read TFA?
And not even a link to the original report? It's really not hard to find.
And how is freedom on the net even measured without a subjective component?
...Estonia because it only exists on the Internet (www.ee): noone can actually point it's location on a map.
Yep, we're off to a bad start. A dupe with a juicy spelling link for the Spelling Brigade in only two sentences of TFS.
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It's been said that in NKorea, they have their own internet. It's one giant WAN. But, if you wish to gain access to the outside, you will have an MP officer standing behind. It's to ensure you don't breach a signed contract in blood that you won't go outside your pre-defined scope/objective at research.
God forbid someone stumbles upon a typo-squatted site where porn pops all over the place. Talk about a land-mind moment with a bullet to the head.
...Taco doesn't do well.
When Germany places third in Internet Freedom, then the bar must be pretty low. Germany censors web sites. Germany recorded everyone's connection meta data about phone calls and internet connections. Germany makes people who provide open wireless LAN access take the fall for crimes which are committed by other people via that WLAN. In Germany, blog operators are liable for comments if they fail to perform a fair amount of editorial supervision. Germany requires every web site which is written for a public audience to list an email address and a phone number of the person who takes responsibility for the content.
Canada is nowhere to be seen.
"the US silver"
This enough is proof how bogus this ranking is.
.. where did Australia rank?
US officials can seize your domain without a court order while in Iran or China, they would just block you! Remember the massive domain seizure that ended up being wrong?
Freedom? That's strictly up for debate!
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So just because he's rich means he doesn't have the right to be treated fairly by the tax board?
if its own editors don't even read it. because just scanning the headlines for one minute a day and having a barely workable human memory would send off dupe alarm bells
so taco: please tell us what website you are reading so we can stop reading here and go there instead, since you obviously don't consider slashdot worth your time. you obviously think slashdot is beneath your interest level
its insulting to slashdot's readers, and it just leaves you with the feeling that if the powers that be around here don't even care enough to read their own site, so why am i reading this site? its a major turn off
how long has the dupe problem dragged on?
what exactly is your fucking problem that you can't scan the headlines of your own fucking website for one minute a day?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
with the HADOPI and LOPSI laws... isn't it woth of evaluating or the response would be scary at best?
They read the numbers on the cheque the advertisers cut them thanks to mindless drones who continue to post on the site creating content to sell ad impressions.
Mindless drone 593017, signing off.
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What intelligence service is spying on you? Google or Apple perhaps...
You're joking, right?
In the USA all Internet traffic that travels through major NOCs is monitored by the NSA. It's pretty well known.
This is a list of the bottom 35 countries... out of 193. Getting silver is like winning the special olympics.
Fixed.
It would be nice if the study was a little more inclusive.
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This report is complete bullshit. If you want a comprehensive report, and not something that is influenced by political fashions of the minute, take a look at the Electronic Police-State Report: https://secure.cryptohippie.com/pubs/EPS-2010.pdf
That's funny. Prisoners of the net ranking which prisons offer the most freedom.
Freedomhouse, the creators of this imaginary list are a propaganda front for the US Gov. As with most propaganda, their "list" is completely bogus - to any impartial observer there is just no way the US could make it to third place of world stage based on the facts.. However propaganda is not effective unless you get everyone repeating it without thinking - which raises the question - how is this organization they gaming the slashdot story posting system ?? Are we to have this propaganda tripe plastered across the headlines every other week?
From above link:
Freedom House
-1301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Floor 6; Washington D.C. 20036 Tel. (202) 296 5101 Fax: (202) 293 2840
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=2
From: “By Way of Deception, We Shall do War” | by Deanna Spingola | September 16, 2010
* http://www.spingola.com/By_Way_of_Deception.html
Communist apologist Eleanor Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, George Field, Dorothy Thompson, Herbert Bayard Swope, and prominent journalists, academics, trade unionists, theologians, and public officials founded Freedom House, a CFR front, in October 1941. FDR encouraged the group’s covert propaganda activities as he hoped it would persuade U.S. citizens to accept entry into World War II. Freedom House was also instrumental in facilitating and supporting post-war policies like the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the UN.
In 1982, President Reagan created the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in order to acceptably manage CIA activities. Freedom House, the group created in 1941, became a part of this network. NED helped to finance Freedom House. Paul Wolfowitz, in the early 1980s, along with his neoconservative allies, collaborated with numerous Trotskyites. With the hidden funding and under the cover of conservative think tanks, the U.S. government can influence the public and conceal its interventions in foreign politics.
Recall that Freedom House was organized in 1941 to promote World War II. They are still propagandizing. William Howard Taft IV (S&B, PNAC[69]) is its current chairman. It is an international non-governmental organization that endorses a one-world government and opposes all nationalist governments. It has offices in offices in Algeria, Hungary, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Uzbekistan, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine. Taft supports the Law of the Sea which places all of the oceans under the jurisdiction of the UN. Since 1941, the group has developed ties to the CIA, the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Institute of Peace and other institutions and government agencies. Freedom House, a propaganda vehicle, is also a front group for the CFR, the British counterpart of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. In 2005 Freedom House was receiving U.S. government funds “for clandestine activities inside Iran.” The organization receives about 66% of its budget from the U.S. government. [70] See the list of their board members here. Other financing comes from the Scaife Family Foundation which finances many groups and individuals, especially those associated with the CFR, including, Newt Gingrich’s (CFR) GOPAC, the Federalist Society, the Media Research Center and Joseph Farah’s World Net Daily – all of which selectively dispense “conservative views.” The National Endowment for Democracy, a proponent for one world governance also finances Freedom House, &c. [71]
You hear about the zeal for progressive freedoms in the Scandinavian countries from time to time it seems to me. Things like the Pirate party in Sweden. And Iceland wanting to make a free press safehouse out of its country. And DVD Jon in Norway. I was kinda shocked that none of Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, or Finland was in this report. Kind of a stupid report IMO.
One man's pink plane is another man's blue plane.
Where's Canada?
I think it's funny and tragic that countries in Europe, where free speech is not a given right and individuals can be thrown in jail for speaking their thoughts, should score at all on a measure of 'internet' freedom.
How is it possible to claim that there is internet freedom in a country where if you put your thoughts on a website you could be arrested and your website shut down?
I discredited the article because they were claiming that liberals were giving more freedom to the internet, when liberals are the ones who want control unless they meant it differently.
the table in the article shows Thailand being worse than Bahrain, or am I missing something?
There was an unknown error in the submission.
Well, China can't be far up there, since the report is quite clearly hard-blocked (which means the connection is always reset when trying to access it). Interestingly enough, imdb is also blocked, which just seems stupid. I really need to get a vpn.
And besides, anyone who writes a law to protect freedom on the Internet clearly doesn't understand it well enough in the first place to write a law to protect it.
Censorship is always going to exist where ever you go, however, it can always be circumvented. If there are any laws needed, it's laws to protect the individual who chooses to go around the censorship.
I have to say I thought it was quite humorous that the majority of countries where freedom is taken for granted are simply not included.
For 12 years, I stood up each day in school forced to pledge my allegiance to a flag and the country it stands for under some god I don't even believe in. It's as if they were also trying to force their religion on me as well. The simple fact that we are forced every day to re-pledge our allegiance at risk of being penalized by the principle are taunted by some religious freaks is a simple proof that at even at the basest level, the freedom "All humans are given by their god" is subject to allegiance to a country which recognizes the necessity of forcing it.
I am in possession copies of Merriam Webster dictionaries starting in their earlier years and updated for each time the accepted American definition is altered for the words "Freedom" and "Liberty". You'd be surprised how often this occurs.
Given that America feels the need to force people to believe they are in fact free through propaganda and government sponsored reeducation and that the government regularly changes the definition of liberty and freedom to suit their purposes and therefore guarantee they are the most free people with the greatest liberties, it is truly pathetic that under these circumstances they can't even place #1 on a report they sponsored either directly or indirectly.
When I moved to Norway 13 years ago, I learned about freedom when I realized that it's not an issue here. People aren't sold freedom, they aren't regularly reminded of these great god given liberties (which the Bush attorney general publicly stated are really more of an opinion as opposed to a right the day they chose to suggest the habeas corpus did not apply to those who did not pledge their allegiance to the flag or to those where their allegiance was in question either), instead people simply live and let live.
It is wonderful to live in a place where you're simply free and no one has to sell it to you.
Freedom House, the publisher of the report, get 80% of its budget from the U.S. Government. (Wikipedia) No wonder they don't take into account things like domain name seizures, illegal intercepts, and the DMCA.