Via the website BoingBoing is a good new directory showing where the most and least censored internet systems are. A handy reference guide for people keeping an eye on governments’ efforts to control content. Suffice to say that nations like Saudi Arabia or China do not score very well.
Outside our web-world, some people may sneer that only geeks get upset by censorship, but given its growing importance as a communications medium, those sneers are misplaced. The loss of freedoms tends to diminish those of everyone else.
Outside our web-world, some people may sneer that only geeks get upset by censorship
That would seem like a very strange thing indeed for someone to say.
Of course, if it’s true I’m proud to be a geek.
Readers may also be interested that there is also a specatular graphic on “Strange maps” (found at http://strangemaps.wordpress.com) under the title “The Internet’s Black Holes”. I can’t pput my hand on the exact link but I guess I could find it if people wanted.
Anybody in partly-free places would condemn censorship. The government version, at any rate.
TOR and FreeNet forever!
In a spirit of willing and non-coercive information-sharing …
Internet Black Holes
Ironically, Boing-Boing is censored where I work.