3/4 of the Earth's population live under oppressive regimes. Unless steps like these are vigourously stopped the Internet will cease to be anything but a domain of the Thought Police.
First bricks of Great Firewall of TAIWAN are being laid, netizens fear
Online freedoms in Asia are once again being squeezed after the Taiwanese and Singaporean governments signalled their desire for greater internet censorship. The Republic of China, which claims ownership of Taiwan, has proposed SOPA-like amendments to the country’s copyright law - and netizens fear these could be misused in …
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Wednesday 29th May 2013 12:20 GMT Paul Crawford
Re: "...But will it stop there?"
Of course not, and such censorship filters are always opaque - they won't tell you what is being filtered and why, other than the usual fake rant about "terrorists and paedophiles".
Remember the Australian government's attempt at "protecting the children" via a filter that turned out to have gambling sites, general pr0n and a dentist's office on its list?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia#Leaking_of_the_ACMA_blacklist
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