An anonymous reader writes "Watchdog group Global Integrity breaks down online censorship: "Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a U.S. court's recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: This is unheard of in the West, and has only been seen in a handful of the most repressive regimes. Good thing it doesn't work very well."
Delightful nuggets: "Egypt has limited technical means to discourage content creation, so it relies on an old-fashioned technique — harassment, beatings and arrests." "Kazakhstan has little Internet capacity, which the government uses to mask censorship, by frustrating the users of political content into looking elsewhere. The KNB (formerly the KGB) has a special program called Bolat, which slows down, but does not stop, access to sites..."" Link to Original Source
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