Inside Internet Filtering

While at a conference, I recently had the opportunity to meet with a group of programmers in a related industry.  Over dinner, we got on the topic of countries like China that censor the Internet.  However, in reality there are many more countries that are involved in Internet filtering than just China.

The involvement can range from simply promoting and supplying filters like the government of Australia did in 2007 with the PAFO/NetAlert project, to full mandated filtering and Internet censorship as is the case in China.

The OpenNet Initiative has studied Internet filtering on a global level and charted the level of filtering an reasons for the filtering onto a map of the world.  Internet filtering world map.

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