russia

"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).