[governance] WSJ "U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web"

[Fouad Bajwa]

An old post but may be very appropriate to the discussion:

Egypt Crisis - Egypt is burning and the Internet is burning with
Surveillance, Spying and Tracking citizens and Internet users.
http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/2011/02/egypt-crisis-egypt-is-burning-and.html

It's being actively used for the region I reside in and neighboring
countries...............there is talk about FoE by policy makers but
there are tools in place to counter these freedoms when and where
required.

-- FOo


On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704438104576219190417124226.html>
>
> These same issues discussed at the IGF in Athens.  One more time?
>
> Nice quote:
>
> "Web-filtering technology has roots in the 1990s, when U.S. companies,
> schools and libraries sought to prevent people from surfing porn, among
> other things.
>
> Today, that U.S. technology is now among the tools used in the clampdowns on
> uprisings across the Middle East. In Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and elsewhere,
> bloggers have been jailed and even beaten as governments try to repress
> online expression."
>
> Adam
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