Nice Yahoo article - Discusses several countries where the governments are actively filtering and censoring, products and services being used to work around them (Anonymizer, Megaproxy, Peek-A-Booty, Safeweb, others), market forces, effectiveness (China's gotten much faster about blocking popular workarounds, etc.)
------ Forwarded Message From: Seth Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 04:49:49 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/f ea_internet_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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
