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IP: IP IS BACK --- Governments, technologists battle over Internet censorship
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:50:57 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 04:49:49 -0400 To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Governments, technologists battle over Internet censorship [Much food for thought here] http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020903/ap_wo_en_po/fea_i nternet_censorship_1 Governments, technologists battle over Internet censorship Mon Sep 2, 8:26 PM ET By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer "Internet censorship is on the rise. A February 2001 report from Paris-based Reporters Without Borders found censorship in 58 countries, including China, Vietnam and Tunisia. The group expects to list about 40 more in a January update. And longtime censors have gotten even more aggressive in the past year or so as they play what amounts to a digital version of Whac-a-Mole. They have poured countless resources and hired the brightest technicians to find and close the technical loopholes through which people can get forbidden content, including Western news outlets, dissident writings, and in the Mideast, pornography and other sites deemed anti-Islam. They have largely succeeded." -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf () sethf com http://sethf.com Anticensorware Investigations - http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ Seth Finkelstein's Infothought list - http://sethf.com/infothought/ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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