The New York Times - MARCH 11, 2014
OVER
the next decade, approximately five billion people will become
connected to the Internet. The biggest increases will be in societies
that, according to the human rights group Freedom House, are severely
censored: places where clicking on an objectionable article can get your
entire extended family thrown in prison, or worse.
The
details aren’t pretty. In Russia, the government has blocked tens of
thousands of dissident sites; at times, all WordPress blogs and Russian
Wikipedia have been blocked. In Vietnam, a new law called Decree 72
makes it illegal to digitally distribute content that opposes the
government, or even to share news stories on social media. And in
Pakistan, sites that were available only two years ago — like Tumblr,
Wikipedia and YouTube — are increasingly replaced by unconvincing
messages to “Surf Safely.”
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