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A Horrifying Interactive Map of Global Internet Censorship

Posted by timothy on from the coming-soon-to-a-security-theater-near-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Imagine a world where the book burners had won. A world where information is filtered and must be approved by governments before it can be accessed by their citizens. A world where people are held down and kept in line by oppressive regimes that restrict the free flow of information and bombard citizens with government-approved messages. Now stop imagining, because this horrifying world already exists..."

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  1. [censored] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    [censored]

  2. Re:Doesn't work by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 4, Funny

    The summary links to an article which has a link in it to the map which doesn't load.

    It's probably been censored by your ISP :)

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  3. Re:Link has no map? by TuringTest · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't worry, the upcoming trend is "native advertising" - having ads embedded on the content stream with the same format than articles (mmh, why does that sound familiar?). That way, you don't even need to click on the ads.

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