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State censorship of internet grows
18/05/07 – The number of countries that are censoring what its citizen's view on the web is increasing according to a new study. It was carried out by the Open Net Initiative (ONI) and shows that net-filtering is more commonplace than before.The research covered thousands of websites across 120 Internet Service Providers and found that found 25 out of the 41 countries surveyed carried out content filtering.
According to the survey countries which carry out the broadest range of filtering included Burma, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen with websites and services such as Skype and Google Maps blocked.
The ONI is a collective of research groups at the universities of Toronto, Harvard Law School, Oxford and Cambridge.
John Palfrey of Harvard Law School said: "In five years we have gone from a couple of states doing state-mandated net filtering to 25."
The study looked at what could be done safely and where there was "the most to learn about government online surveillance".
Researchers said that a number of nations in Europe and the US were not tested because the private sector rather than the government carried out filtering in those states.
According to the study there were three primary rationales for the filtering; politics and power, security concerns and social norms.
Mr Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said: "What's regrettable about net filtering is that almost always this is happening in the shadows. There's no place you can get an answer as a citizen from your state about how they are filtering and what is being filtered."
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Published Date: 2007-05-18 14:39:28Subscribe to our RSS News feed:
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