When the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee (not to be confused with the Internet itself, which is the core network developed many years earlier), its main objective was to enable the free exchange of information via interlinked hypertext documents.
Almost 20 years later, that objective has been accomplished on most parts of the world, but not in all of them. Some countries are trying hard to keep an iron hand over the flow of information that takes place on the Web. Below you will find the most controversial ones.
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Discovering that countries like Iran or Yemen are censoring the web is not a big surprise. Most forms of independent media are already restricted there, and their levels of human rights are among the lowest in the world.
But what if we told you that Australia, one of the richest countries in the world, is also trying to censor websites inside its borders? Now that is scary! Full story...
See also:
- Switzerland: Tens of thousands addicted to the Internet...
- Malaysia declares war on bloggers...
- China: teacher held for publishing quake photos...
- WTF! Iran Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers...
- Golden Shield, China's all-seeing eye. ( Must read)
- Moroccan blogger jailed for criticizing the king...
- John McCain: I hate the bloggers!!!
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