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A list of 13 "enemies of the internet" has been released by human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while Nepal, Libya and the Maldives have all been removed.
The list consists of countries that RSF believes are suppressing freedom of expression on the internet.
The civil liberties pressure group has organised a 24-hour protest, inviting web users to vote for the worst offending countries.
Visitors to the RSF website are also invited to leave a voice message for Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang, expressing their views on the firm's involvement in China.
RSF has been outspoken in its condemnation of Yahoo. The search engine has been criticised along with other companies for helping the Chinese authorities block access to some online material.
The list, with explanations of why the countries are included, is located at
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19603 (That should get you the English-language version, but if not click the British flag at the top of the page, or go to the home page and click the flag there.)
As last year, North Korea continues to be the world’s worst Internet black hole.
In alphabetical order, the countries are
1.Belarus
2.Burma
3.China
4.Cuba
5.Egypt
6.Iran
7.North Korea
8.Saudi Arabia
9.Syria
10.Tunisia
11.Turkmenistan
12.Uzbekistan
13.Vietnam
So these are all enemies... all for censorship and limitation limits...? I think it does destroy the internet... as it defeats the object of the entire concept of the internet, although its use and meaning have much been adapted with other cultures; the internet is a very borad thing, yet very strange... Is it an object? a medium? a tool? Does it exist?
There is a pretty interesting case going on atm the moment about ISP's charging Bigger sites for the chance to gain a bandwidth and deployment speed on 'high speed' lines.
Basicly what they want to do is in effect create a fast lane for people who can afford it and a regular speed late for the rest of us!
The consequences are obvious! The net used to be a level playing field if this bill goes thorugh in america its only a matter of time before it fillters down to us.
A music industry coalition is proposing that ISPs, mobile phone companies and device manufacturers pay a fee to the music industry for any illegal file sharing their products enable. Will this end DRM/filesharung issues, or is it a damn fool idea?
enemies of the internet..
blah..
Internet is rotten. There really is no way to safe this, its all about hackers against of crackers, in the end, no-one wins, normal users just have to load tons of security updates. Or then the bandwith used as spamming will raise too high.
And new internet would be good, but they will surely create somekind of new registeration technology that would stop piracy.
And once again privacy would go right out of window.
and it would be somehow cracked sooner or later.
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