The Increasingly Censorious World: 47% of All Internet Users Experience Censorship, Says OpenNet Initiative
Posted in: Censorship at 15/04/2012 15:19
According to the OpenNet Initiative (ONI)--a joint initiative of Harvard University, the University of Toronto and the SecDev Group--47% of the world's Internet users experience some form of fractured Internet. ONI bases their research on technical testing in 74 countries, 42 of which the researchers found engage in "some form of filtering of content." Though the aforementioned statistic (47%, or 960 million Internet users) includes countries like Morocco that engage only in "selective" blocking of websites, 31% of the world's Internet users live in countries that engage in "substantial" or "pervasive" online censorship.
Vietnam Aiming to be Enemy #1 (of the Internet)
Vietnam--which has been named an "enemy of the Internet" by Reporters Without Borders two years in a row--appears to be vying for first place on that list, in light of two recent news items. The first is a report that claims that the trial of eleven detained activists, including several bloggers, is "imminent." The report, from Radio Free Asia, calls the charges against the activists as "part of a larger crackdown" on activists and citizen journalists in the country.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/week-censorship-increasingly-censorious-world
