censorship

``Last month I was threatened with police intervention after taking pictures of my two-year-old. Why? We were in what you might think of as analogous to an outdoor mall. It’s a former industrial complex that’s listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Today the area has been revitalized with restaurants and office space, a large greenspace in the middle, and an attractive manmade river and waterfall. Despite there being no signs to indicate such, security informed me that the owners of the space have prohibited photography in order to “protect the intellectual property of the architecture.”''

"Where ongoing worldwide public concern and diplomatic pressure have singularly failed to convince Google it should be helping the people who use its services, the Dollar Almighty dollar might succeed.

Do No Evil Google which, with Microsoft and Yahoo, is: helping to spread the "virus of internet repression," according to Amnesty International; which has censored its web site in China; and, which was the only firm to totally fail a six-month investigation into privacy practices employed by key Net-based companies, "is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide," says Associated Press."

"Russia's deputy prosecutor general wants Big Brother reinstated, this time to censor freedom of speech online.

A "legal control over the Internet" is necessary, "to step efforts to fight with extremism," says Ivan Sydoruk, according to Kommersant.

Human rights activities say state control over the Net, "will create persecuted 'cyberdissidents" and IT specialists argue online censorship is next to impossible, says the story." -- Read more

I guess some people never learn.

1.) Censoring internet is very hard and is almost assured not to be able to stop anyone determined enough to go around (these "extremists" included).

"Amnesty International has warned that the internet "could change beyond all recognition" unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms.

The warning comes ahead of a conference organised by Amnesty, where victims of repression will outline their plights.

The "virus of internet repression" has spread from a handful of countries to dozens of governments, said the group.

Amnesty accused companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo of being complicit in the problem." -- Read more