Internet Censorship Grows Worldwide


	Internet Censorship Grows Worldwide

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5-19-2007 1:01 PM

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LONDON (AFP) - Internet censorship is growing worldwide, with 26 out of 40 countries blocking or filtering political or social content, a study reported Friday.
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The survey carried out by experts at four leading universities found that people in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were often denied access to information about politics, sexuality, culture or religion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/internetcensorship"><P>
For example, <SPAN class="yqlink">
<A title="Related information on South Korea" class="yqimgins" href="http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=South+Korea">South Korea</A></SPAN> heavily censored only one topic, <SPAN class="yqlink">
<A title="Related information on North Korea" class="yqimgins" href="http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=North+Korea">North Korea</A></SPAN>, while <SPAN class="yqlink">
<A title="Related information on Iran" class="yqimgins" href="http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Iran">Iran</A></SPAN>, China and Saudi Arabia blocked both a wide range of topics and a great deal of content related to those topics.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0535E74D-3F44-4893-BD30-61A8F43202F3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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