Global web censorship on the rise.
The number of governments that routinely block web sites is increasing,
according to the most comprehensive survey of internet filtering yet.
Meanwhile, the same study suggests that techniques for blocking
undesirable content are growing ever more sophisticated.
Previous reports of government internet filtering have been limited to
specific countries, such as China, Iran and Cuba, says Rafal Rohozinski,
of the Open Net Initiative (ONI), which produced the report. The ONI is
a partnership between the University of Cambridge, the University of
Oxford, Harvard University and Toronto University.
Rohozinski says such reports have been based largely on anecdotal
information and spot sampling. "This is the first attempt to create a
rather comprehensive survey across a large number of countries, looking
comparatively at whether they filter, what they filter and for what
reasons," he says.
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