Well, here is a country that can't afford to feed it's own people, yet they bought internet filtering software from China, and now they are passing a bill to make it legal.
And this is a country that forbids most western reporters from traveling in rural areas, and has closed down most of their independent papers.
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Reporters without borders reports:
The study also claims that China, which is seen to be the most repressive regime when it comes to net censorship, is now passing on its cyber-spying skills to other authoritarian states including Zimbabwe, Cuba, and most recently Belarus.
Reporters Without Frontiers said that technology firms are also actively assisting administrations attempts to curtail freedom of speech. Among the tech companies criticised in the report are Secure Computing, which sold software to censor access to the internet to the Tunisian government, and Cisco Systems for building China's internet infrastructure and selling the country special equipment for the police to use to monitor net use.
Europe and the US don't escape condemnation either. The US is criticised for sending an "ambiguous message" to the international community by making it easier to legally intercept online traffic and by filtering the internet in public libraries.
Note the moral equivalence? The internet filters in US public libraries are to prevent school kids from finding pornography...not political sites. And they were placed there, not by the Federal Government, but under pressure from local parents. But if you didn't know that, you would assume it is the same as Zimbabwe reading (and perhaps punishing) Sister Winfrieda's emails about her convent and chapel being torn down during operation cleanup....
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