The growth of online censorship is one of the most ominous trend


	The growth of online censorship is one of the most ominous trend

shankargallery

4-6-2007 6:43 AM

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The growth of online censorship is one of the most ominous trend

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The BBC on Web Censorship
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      </P><DIV></DIV><DIV>The growth of online censorship is one of the most ominous trends of the last decade.  The BBC recently took a look at this disturbing development:</DIV><BR /><SPAN><DIV>Over a decade after the internet really began to take off, most countries' leaders recognise the desirability of being online, says Daniel Whitener of the World Wide Web consortium.</DIV><BR /><DIV>"They recognise it, if nothing else, as a critical avenue for commerce," he explains.</DIV><BR /><DIV>"What comes along with that commercial avenue though is access to quite a bit of information that can be quite threatening to authoritarian regimes."</DIV><BR />And the ways that different countries have attempted to combat this threat are numerous.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR />Read the rest <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6475911.stm">here</A>.<DIV></DIV>
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