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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?
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?
One thing Daft punk left out was "proofread it"
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...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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...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.
.. 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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"the US silver"
This enough is proof how bogus this ranking is.
I think they only look at government suppression, not government sanctioned corporate suppression, nor government surveillance.
Also keep in mind that this is a US company, who would be sawing off the branch they sat on if they said that their internet was suppressed.
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?
Well, they didn't include every country, and they certainly excluded some countries that would have ranked higher than the US (Canada, which is currently PATRIOT ACT free, is one that immediately comes to mind).
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.
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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.
Fixed.
Right, so basically the US is the second most internet-free country, from a list of countries.
Hold the presses.
I'm the richest man in the world if we only take homeless people as my 'world'.
It depends. Wheelchair basketball, sled hockey... some of those guys are actually really good. Besides if you watch the real Olympics almost all the athletes are injured from over training.
The special Olympics are look how well this guy can do without a leg. The normal olimics is look how well this guy can do with a perfectly fine leg but every thing else bash bruised and broken. (my apologies to Douglas Adams)
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Yes, well that and the fact that they had to stop taking their steroids long enough to pass the drug test.
It would be nice if the study was a little more inclusive.
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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?
And why is that?
I haven't heard of other countries arbitrarily seizing domain names from web sites that the government doesn't like, without due process, without a way to appeal, and without even notification. But this is exactly what the US has been doing recently [1, 2]. This ranking is completely worthless.
[1] http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/
[2] http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizures-110201/
Depending on how you do the weighting, Canada could still come out behind. Among other things, it has done much more than the US to forbid reporting of some current legal proceedings. Obviously, it's a really subjective list (some countries should obviously rank poorly because they're bad on all or almost all metrics, but it's much less clear near the "free" end of the list which factors should matter the most).
By the way I'm really glad that Slashdot is sticking it to the man. In the report Iran is actually the champion on freedom censorship not Bahrain (lower score, higher freedom). If you can't beat them, confuse them.
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I believe Germany is pretty much middle of the road for European internet freedom policies, looking at a bunch of others isn't going to sway the outcome of this study by much.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
I find it funny that Hillary Clinton talks about internet freedom while they drag some old guy out and cuff him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My29YT1T4R4
I guess US citizens are now to restrict their protests to the Internet ;).
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.