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

[Adam Peake]

<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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