Enemies of the internet

November 7th, 2006 by Monitor

Reporters Sans Frontieres has published a blacklist of 13 countries with the worst records of internet censorship. They are running a campaign where you can register your opposition to this by clicking on this map within the next 24 hours.

Read about the campaign here.

The 13 “Internet black holes” are:

Belarus
Burma
China
Cuba
Egypt
Iran
North Korea
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Vietnam


One Response to “Enemies of the internet”

  1. Flotsam
    November 8th, 2006 at 12:47 am



    They have left out the big enabler from this list. The country that makes and sells proxy software to censor the Internet on a national level. The same country that is home to the search engines that censor searches for oppressive regimes too. Any guesses where? Some clues: Land, free, home, brave.

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