Web censorship spreading globally

by Victoria Revay | March 15, 2007 at 09:08 am

226 views | 0 Recommendations | 0 comments

Turkey blocks YouTube, China blocks Wikipedia and sets up rigorous web control, Pakistan bans Google's blogger, some ountries apply "keyword filters" and Russia's President Vladimir Putin assembles a new super-agency to regulate media and the Internet. Web censorship is spreading globally, so what are we doing about it?

President Vladimir Putin has decreed the creation of a new super-agency to regulate media and the Internet, sparking fears among Russian journalists of a bid to extend tight publishing controls to the relatively free Web.

Internet censorship is spreading rapidly, being practised by about two dozen countries and applied to a far wider range of online information and applications