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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. Re:Doesn't work by mlkj · · Score: 5, Informative

    Works for me. Maybe the servers are just choking under the load. Here's a screenshot : http://a.pomf.se/xcxzwr.png

  2. [Citation Needed] by Mycroft-X · · Score: 5, Informative

    United States is shown as:
    VIOLATIONS OF USER RIGHTS 12/40
    FREEDOM ON THE NET 17/100
    OBSTACLES TO ACCESS 4/25
    LIMITS ON CONTENT 1/35

    But they don't say what these things are and which ones are violated. Without the context and citations the results are meaningless -- I could create the same thing in Paint.