the internet is not free in the west either -
i put some critical views of the way anti pakistani and zionists operate on the media on my channel on
UTUBE
AND THEY SUSPENDED IT
SO MUCH FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN AMERICA
THEY HAVE NOT EVEN READ THEIR OWN CONSTITUTION OR FIRST AMENDMENT -
EVEN ON U-TUBE
THIS IS LIKE THE KETTLE CALLING THE POT BLACK -LOLZ
USA IS WORST THEN AMERICA ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH ISSUES -
THE ONLY COUNTRY WHICH HAS ANY FREEDOM AND LETS ITS CITIZENS USE IT PROPERLY WUTH DISCRETION IS ONLY GREAT BRITAIN -THE REST ARE JUST FARCICAL
LIKE THE DANES AND DUTCH -WHICH ARE OBSESSED WITH ISLAMOPHOBIA -YOU CAN SEE HOW ANTI SEMITICS GASSED 6 MILLION POLES -JEWS AND GYPSIES IN EUROPE AS WELL AS 1 MILLION BOSNIANS AND CROATS RECENTLY BY STUDYING THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE DUTCH AND DANES -THEY WILL SOON HAVE ANOTHER CRYSTALL NICHT AGAINST MUSLIMS -ONLY I THINK THE JEWS WILL BE INCLUDED TOO AS THEY WERE IN THE INQUISITION WHERE THEY STARTED THE MISCHIEF LIKE HERE TOO
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Some Western nations have also begun to tighten oversight, of course. British authorities are considering asking Internet-service providers to offer parents child-safe Web services and assigning film-style ratings to all Web sites. Australia has proposed a mandatory Internet filter that would block at least 1,300 sites, most of them with violent or pornographic content. Wikileaks, a self-described Wikipedia for leaked documents, recently released a list of nearly 4,000 sites (almost all pornographic) that, it says, are secretly blocked by the Danish authorities on the advice of Danish police and Save the Children, without judicial or public oversight.
The Western anti-porn measures give Beijing cover. Eradicating smut is an easy way to show that Beijing is in control—and sometimes that's enough to inspire self-censorship on the part of bloggers. Several Chinese portals that found their names on the blacklist decided to apologize and comply with the orders rather than fight them. Of course, Western controls are always instituted with the highest of intentions—to suppress smut rather than political dissent. But controls are controls.
Morozov is a fellow at the Open Society Institute.
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