Sweetness starts: "I was taking another break and came across this interesting article on the Netscape homepage Web censorship spreading globally."
She continues:
"I do work, I just take a few breaks every now and then to read what's happening around the world. It's easier than picking up 5 or 6 newspapers.
"This article was written by Richard Waters in San Francisco and was published on March 14 2007. Evidently more and more countries are blocking the internet in some way or another. Mr. Walters has an interesting map that accompanies the article. It shows where the censorship is and where it is spreading around the world. He indicates that censorship is being practised (sic) by about two dozen countries and applied to a far wider range of online information and applications, according to research by a transatlantic group of academics.
"The latest country to block an application on the internet was Turkey. Their court ordered YouTube to be blocked. The court sited that offensive comments were being posted about the founder of modern Turkey. This appears to be the trend, some one finds something that was posted offensive and site(s) are blocked. I don't know if the material referenced was offensive, I haven't seen it. Evidently it was offensive in Turkey and they chose to ban the site."
Sweetness concludes her thoughts tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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