IP: IP IS BACK --- Governments, technologists battle over Internet censorship

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html


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