Reporters Without Borders calls out some of the most Internet-repressing countries in the world. In addition to tagging 12 countries as enemies of the Internet, the group also names another 10 countries -- including Australia and South Korea -- as threatening the Internet freedoms of their people.Round up the usual suspects.
Reporters
Without
Borders March 12 issued its "Enemies of the
Internet" list which examines Internet censorship and other threats to
online free expression in 22 countries. We're not talking network
management issues here but, rather, the imprisonment of cyber
dissidents, online news and information censorship and
government-sponsored efforts to scramble or jam online content.
It's
not a pretty picture. Twelve of the countries called out by Reporters
Without Borders -- Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi
Arabia, Syria,
Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam -- have all "transformed
their Internet into an Intranet in order to prevent their population
from accessing 'undesirable' online information," according to the report.
Another
10 countries, including Australia and South Korea, have been been
placed on the free press organization's watch list. Australia made the
list for a draft law requiring service providers to provide two
connections per household: one for adults and the other for children.
Both connections would be subject to strict and private filtering. In
addition, since 2001, Australian law has allowed an independent
agency to intercept all suspect e-mails and to carry out independent
investigations, including in the absence of any prior judicial
authorization.
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