New 'Enemies of the Internet' Listed In Reporters Without Borders Study
New submitter Warmlight writes "The BBC reports that 'Bahrain and Belarus have been added to Reporters Without Borders' annual list of "enemies of the internet." They join 10 other nations on the campaign group's register of states that restrict net access, filter content and imprison bloggers. India and Kazakhstan have also joined RWB's list of "countries under surveillance" because of concerns that they are becoming more repressive.' I wonder how ACTA will affect this in the next year? In their report, they say, 'Resistance to ACTA is stronger than ever and the treaty may not see the light of day. Vigilance must be maintained.'"
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia can do whatever they like as long as they keep that sweet, sweet crude coming. I've got an SUV to fill.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The country with one of the oldest centralised Internet censorship systems, the Internet Watch Foundation, seems not to be on this list. This is so even as recently it has been ordered that sites must be censored for issues as trivial as linking to files which infringe copyright. Why is that?
The purest form of free speech allows censorship?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Not RTFA'ing is fair game, but it's clear that you failed to RTFS.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
the Internet was just "our little private world", like Second Life.
It wasn't "real life". It was just a separate little thing.
Nobody (especially governments) cared about since, mostly since they didn't even know about it.
Now that everybody's on it, they want:
-Nothing exposing misdeeds (US)
-Nothing about the Nazis (Germany)
-Nothing about competing brands (France)
-Nothing offensive (India)
-Nothing about how the rest of the world lives (China)
and so on.
If only there, there were another interconnected network ... hmm.
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
Yes, yes, it is so terrible that this organization is so intolerant of regimes that shoot, beat, and arrest people for what they say online.
bullets = free speech in its purest form.
The country that promoted SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, taken hostile control of the root dns, made raids overseas for Megaupload and others, have laws that force big companies like google/facebook/etc to give them their customers information and a "few" more is somewhat absent there. We need the Archenemy of the Internet list for it?
Ah I think I understand now, if cash can be speech then why not bullets and tanks? They convey much more of a message IMO.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I agree!
More blood for oil!
I think we need another campain of crusades.
Sarcasm detector broke? He was making a quip about how the western governments turns a blind eye to these country's terrible actions to keep the oil flowing.
along with other first-world nations like Australia and the U.K., then the list isn't honest or accurate.
Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.
An iPad? Pfff, that's so last hour. The iPad 45 came out a few minutes ago.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
I've seen my blog censored by Google, de-indexed from their search results. Technorati went even further, and not only censored the blog, censored any other website that re-posted entries contained within.
And then when I came here to protest this censorship, I was censored here too.
Same thing happened on reddit.
From my point of view, all of this hand-waving Americans do about censorship overseas is nonsense. It's a pose. Nothing more.
"The 'under surveillance' list also includes Russia, which has used cyber-attacks and has arrested bloggers and netizens to prevent a real online political debate."
The U.S. has done the same (usually with a false claim of copyright infringement)
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My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
Anybody with a half a clue would know that Bahrain has little oil and it certainly isn't a factor the reason it is friendly with Western governments.
Thus, moderator, please mod the parent down to oblivion for being utterly and completely wrong.
Facts 1 - elrous0 0.
Product numbers are so 2011.
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Kill all hipsters.
Governments of Earth tend to view the Internet as a threat to their power.
President Obama, don't you think that slogan of yours is a wee bit negative. Even if you end up going toe to toe with Santorum, you'll still need something that speaks more to your strengths.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
doublethink r plusplusgood
Check your premises.
Enjoy the Koolaid... You may be happy to spend your money on over-priced toys, for no reason other than your loyalty to the HOLY APPLE (a company INTERESTED IN MAKING PROFITS!)
While you're wasting money on Apple junk, I'm saving a fortune by sitting sobbing in a darkened room, my solitary sorrow punctuated only by brief posts on Slashdot, the hourly self-conscious wank, and checking outside my door to see if mother has left me some sandwiches.
Enjoy your walled garden!
In the #1 position.
We're #1! Go usa!
Due to this clause of an upcoming copyright bill
-change enabler provision to providing a service primarily for the purpose of enabling acts of infringement
and this clause
-a new limitation on disclosure of security flaws that requires advance notice to the copyright owner unless it is in the public interest to have it disclosed without such notice
ADD the spying internet bill....and its all dead....BYE no more archiving sites.Can't prove in some cases whom owns copyright thus would be breaking law.THUS any programing done anonymously is now illegal to host ...
Ah I think I understand now, if cash can be speech then why not bullets and tanks? They convey much more of a message IMO.
I think it depends on who you're trying to get the message to, and current conditions. A whisper to your wife in bed usually works, but King George, Muammar Ghadaffi, and Hosni Mubarak took a bit stronger amplitude.
The *AAs may be completely deaf from all indications so far.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
I'd say that the US is the biggest enemy overall to the internet. I mean those others are just censoring for their people. The US has decided to censor it for the world. And if they can't do that, they'll just seize the domain.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
Just like the printing press was feared pretty much! Fact is, I know a FAIRLY high ranking field grade officer in the military (or two over time due to work as well as personal life) - HOWEVER, the problem is, misinformation & propoganda is also possible online, along with "the truth" (problem is, who's truth, right?):
One's told me, point-blank, they & the "FEDS" (insert whatever agency you want here) HATE "GEEKS", and yes, they fear the internet (they should IF they're pulling crap, because you can own every newspaper on the planet, even TV stations & radio stations too, but you CANNOT OWN THE NET & edit its content or fabricate its news as easily... fact, & we all now it)!
(I.E.-> They hate hacker/cracker types FAR worse than geeks/techs etc. (we're tools for them, the 'good ones' that is), especially the person I refer to, because they have messed him up personally before (not with military data, but with personal work related stuff being delayed by infestations))...
Do I blame him? Heck no. I don't think anyone would. I am not fond of that "type" (malware makers/hacker-crackers) either, & do my best to stop them IF possible in various ways in fact + I have for decades in MANY ways.
How's that working out here? Hehe, gets me harassed online by them quite often actually... lol. Same with other guys I know into "that game"... why would I bother?? Because of what the net is, which, in my estimation @ least??? Has FAR MORE GOOD POTENTIAL, than bad.
That's why. I wish it was around for example when I was first in collegiate academia for EVERYONE really. The net's a massively powerful knowledgebase is why, where you can meet your peers (in my case coders & networkers) to share know-how with & grow by.
They are WRONG as wrong gets is why these hacker/cracker malware maker types I feel & The ONLY "GOOD" thing that type does, is expose what needs reinforcement. I try to make lemonade out of THAT lemon.
So, that said?
Well - if anyone would know, it's he. After al, He's part of their structure, as well as the fabled "Eisehower Military Industrial Complex" (which an honest politician even warned us all about decades ago).
That "complex", which face it, has money, power, & influence... is THAT the problem? No, not even that.
They're just guys trying to make a buck who are part of it, to keep their lives/family going - it's the wealthy behind the curtain who are... we all know THEY are the ones starting the wars out there, to profit by, even more.
I have to give they 1 thing: They have an EXCELLENT sense of what motivates people (not a big trick though), & how to get them to do what "the infamous they behind the curtain" want done.
AND, No - I can't spill his name, & I never would!
However, I am saying it point-blank here now as to what I was told.
Those types of guys are only doing what they're told by the "REAL POWERS THAT BE" (same as company mgt. does) - the wealthy/stockholders (majority ones & boards of directors who are usually that too). High ranking officers I have worked for professionally told me the same, how shoddily things get built, things that our military who defends us uses, JUST so they can nickle & dime profit, AND BE THE LOWEST BIDDER to get the contract (that is, when it was still "open bidded" not handed to cronies).
It's "ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS" people... not doing the right thing... far from it. I don't think it even has to be said, we all know it:
"BIG MONEY RUNS THE SHOW" & to find out who that "infamous they" are? Heck oldest rule in the world: FOLLOW THE MONEY. It's that simple, it really is.
Man, I mean... IF the people @ the top operate honestly, they have nothing to fear.
And, sure: I know my nation pulls its share of shit, often in response to what's being done to they/use, since an honest man has chains on him in rules, whereas 'bad guys' do not!
(& bad/good? ALL A POINT OF VIEW, a perspective quite often, because
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That old thing? It was obsolete before you hit the "submit" button.
Homeless people with pirate boxes?
http://mxp.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/13/robin-meades-tuesday-morning-express-preview-controversial-scheme-pays-homeless-to-be-wifi-hotspots-at-sxsw/
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http://torrentfreak.com/piratebox-takes-file-sharing-off-the-radar-and-offline-for-next-to-nothing-120311/
From the BBC article:
"Enemies of the internet"
Bahrain
Belarus
Burma
China
Cuba
Iran
North Korea
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
You sound like a Hitler apologist, in 1932.
I think nowadays, the real enemies of the internet are the U.S.A. and the European Union. Until quite recently, mass surveilance and censorship were terms we associated with nasty dictatorships, but nowadays, the major Western powers are far ahead on that.
Enemies of border listed on internet!
This sig is not paradoxical or ironic.