The New York Times blog The Lede reports today that bloggers in Myanmar are having trouble accessing the internet to post their reports on the governments crackdown on protestors.
Just another sad reminder that Internet censorship is becoming more and more prevalent, and for the most part, no one is doing anything about it. If there were ever a premiere issue that people who care about the Internet need to care about, it's censorship. Whether of porn, unpopular political beliefs, hate speech, gambling sites, any censorship of the internet is harmful, and makes it so much easier for censorship of the internet to be used as a highly effective method of control by a repressive government. The Atlantic put together a helpful map to Internet censorship around the world last May. While some of the information has changed, the map is still a very useful reference point.
Click here for the accompanying article, or here to go straight to the map(PDF).
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