Something’s up and it doesn’t smell good! We are granted the highest level of First Amendment protection to the Internet but for how long?
They’ve tried to restrict it in the past and was shot down by the Supreme Court. Despite the Supreme Court's ruling the States are busy creating
censorship laws at home.
At least 13 States have passed legislation, in the last 12 years. New Mexico has already passed a draconian censorship law, and bills are pending in
10 other states.
I think they would love to cut off all internet communication throughout our Countries. Why is this? I doubt it will only stick to communist
countries. Europe is Under Internet Censorship Threat.
The Chinese have been punished for typing words like freedom and got a pop up warning that it is profanity!!
It’s coming o the US too. The government may take action against Internet sites ANYWHERE in the world, if they host objectionable material.
Objectionable? Anything could fit in that category!
12 countries in 2009: The PERVASIVE List; almost systematic repression of Internet users
Burma
China
Cuba
Egypt
Iran
North Korea
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
The SUBSTANTIAL List; in the following Countries have blocked Christian sites, The blocking also currently includes nearly all known proxy sites,
including the Google Translate tool, freecopts.net, are also blocked. People trying to access these sites are redirected to anonymous.com.bh.
South Korea
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
NOMINAL list; This means the regulator ACMA can order local sites that don’t comply be taken down, and overseas sites have been added to a
blacklist. These sites are filtering several websites on DNS level since April 2009.
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Fiji
Denmark
Finland
France
Ireland
India
Israel
Jordon
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
Norway
Pakistan
Poland
Russia
Singapore
Sweden
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom; The United Kingdom is in ONI's watch list
United States; The Department of Defense filters certain IP addresses. The US military's filtering policy is laid out in a report to congress entitled
Department of Defense Personnel Access to the Internet
Google may temporarily or permanently remove some sites from its search results if it believes it is obligated to do so by law, if they dont meet
Google's quality guidelines, or for OTHER reasons.
Yahoo!’s terms of service state that they reserve the right to refuse or remove anything that they feel violates the terms of service or deem
distasteful.
U.S. criticizes China on Web limits
www.hollywoodreporter.com...
US net nanny ratchets Chinese censorware spat
www.theregister.co.uk...
Internet boycott calls to mark China filter debut
uk.reuters.com...
Surveillance and Censorship Threaten Internet Freedom
www.theepochtimes.com...
Now we are faced with fighting the government on keeping our First amendment right.
www.freepress.net
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