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marketground.com · Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 247

If you find any info about countries trying to censor the WWW, post here. Here is what i dug out:

CHINA

Officially, Chinese Govt says is does not block any websites on the Internet, but....

quote from BBC on the subject:

"Just try logging on to the BBC News website from an internet cafe in China. You can't. The same goes for websites for The New York Times, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and a host of others which could hardly be described as pornographic or "dangerous".

China probably has the most sophisticated internet monitoring and censorship system in the world. In the last few years it has spent tens of millions of dollars building what has come to be known as the "Great Firewall of China". In the past, whole websites were blocked. Today the system can block out individual parts of websites. "

Google has modified its Chinese language search engine so that it does not show results for sites the Chinese government deems "harmful".

CUBA

According to my info you need a licence to buy a computer in Cuba.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

From the UAE, attempting to access sites like www.uaeprison.com or www.arabtimes.com (published in the United States) brings up an apology for the site being blocked and an explanation; it is "due to its content being inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates."