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Guyana Lifts Internet Filters
There is a story on the AP Wire today that talks about how the South American country of Guyana has decided to lift restrictions on free speech on the Internet.
The article states "Programmers will begin removing software filters as early as Monday, Information Minister Moses Nagamootoo was quoted as saying in Sunday newspapers." It seems that once again, the ideals of freedom have defeated the ideas of censorship.
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It turns out that the filters were, of course, blocking unintended information..
The government had gotten complaints from end users that "the filters also prevented them from viewing sites about AIDS, anti-racism efforts and even Kenneth Starr's report urging the impeachment of President Clinton.
French guyanna=South America...
The small country Qatar in the middle-east still has censorship on Internet. Internet is only availble from one ISP and that one blocks more than you would wish. Many webhotels are blocked just because it could contain something "forbidden" (nudity..).
AFAIK Internet is not availble within Saudia Arabia since no ISP's are allowed.
Yes, we must remove the filters so that we can determine EXACTLY who the political disidents are!
I mean, if everyone is forced to keep their opinion to themselves, how will we know who the truly dangerious citizens are!!!
Go ahead and post away, but be ready for the neighborhood neck-lace mob commite to come throw an old tire filled with gasoline around your neck and light a good old-fashioned hoe-down-fuck-you party.
At least Singapore only whaps your ass with a 9 foot cane. Hell, that's practly civilized compared to some places.... You cross posted to more than 9 groups... that's three lashes... too bad the post was SPAM... that's another 15.
It's goes to show that filtering suX.
They implemented a stupid filter at our University and tht cause stupid problems. We still hacked our way around that anyway. The flow of information can't be stopped.
Well, it's good to know that somebody got freedom. Those of us in the USA talk the talk but don't walk the walk.....we have CDA2 here.
Mr. Information Superhighway? Ya, that explains everything....our fine leader wouldn't know the truth if it slapped him upside the head.
And thats another reason web content filters suck. Bad to start with plus inaccurate filtering. Heh.
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The English Guyanna, when independence was declared, took the name "Guyanna". The Hollandese one took "Suriname" (yeah sure). And the French one, of course, is French Guyanna.
They're in the order you see in the previous sentence, from west to east.
Glad to see some people have finally come to their senses.
For those still trapped, there's always Internet Censorship Repair Tools.
I currently live in Guyana, and work at the US Embassy here. We've been putting pressure on the government to ease restrictions for some time now, there'd been a recent push for the proxy to be removed. The main reason wasn't censorship, it was speed, as Guyana has a 256K connection split into 4 64K lines: 3 for private ISP's, and one for the US Embassy.
I think you're thinking of "Guinea" or something. Guyana (only one 'n') is on the northern coast of South America. It's just to the west of the other two Guyanas (French and Dutch, aka "Suriname"), and to the east of Venezuela.
I think Guyana is the only South American country that has English as its official language.
I personally have been to Guyana. It is in south
america(just to the left of suriname).
www.guyana.com for more information.
The interesting thing is that most of Guyana's
revenue is generated by GT&T (Guyana Telephone and
Telegraph) Most of thier money is generated from
Audiotext systems(aka phone sex systems) Ever
seen an ad for international number phone sex
lines that start with 011 592? That's Guyana.
I think it's funny that a country that gets most
of it's money from phone sex lines filters thier
Internet feed.