Cyber-Freedom Under Threat

The freedom of individuals around the world to surf the net is under threat from the policies of democracies as well as authoritarian regimes and dictatorships, according to the Internet Under Surveillance report by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. The authors distinguished between dictatorships like China that gag the internet, and democracies, which they said threatened freedom of expression in the name of fighting pornography, racism or global terrorism — via GeneWeb.info