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May
07

Social Net – Censored Net ?!?!?

Posted by Giselle on May 7, 2009

Censoring the internetThe internet has indeed become one of the most sociable technological wonders the world over yet it has been also subject to controversy time and time again. in countries where the government seeks to control the influx and outflow on information, it is censored and filtered, maybe using keywords or user name databases to block and deny access to them. The upcoming anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Events is sure to get some attention from the Chinese authorities and in the past, Iran has done some filtering of their own when elections and other events of international significance tends to be cut-off from the rest of the internet. Read the rest of this entry »