The lamestream media told you:
Nothing in most locations.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Most Americans are reasonably confident that free speech so boldly exercised on the Internet is not subject to government regulation, and will be the salvation of the freedom movement in the country. The decision by Google to censor its search results to satisfy the Chinese communist dictatorship and gain access to that market is an immaterial blip and of little concern.
According to a Reuters report not widely distributed in the U.S., Internet censorship is planned, working and spreading.
“VIENNA (Reuters) – State restrictions on use of the Internet have spread to more than 20 countries that use catch-all and contradictory rules to help keep people off line and stifle feared political opposition, a new report says. In ‘Governing the Internet’, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) presented case studies of Web censorship.
“‘Recent moves against free speech on the Internet in a number of countries have provided a bitter reminder of the ease with which some regimes, democracies and dictatorships alike, seek to suppress speech that they disapprove of, dislike, or simply fear,’ the report by the 56-nation OSCE said.
“In Kazakhstan, rules on Internet use are so vague and politicized that they “allow for any interpretation …, easily triggering Soviet-style ‘spy mania’ where any dissident individual or organisation could be branded a threat to national well-being and silenced, according to the OSCE report. It cited a prominent incident in 2005 (in reaction to the Borat movie) when Kazakhstan seized all .kz Internet domains.”
In other news, the U.S. Justice Dept. moved forward with hopes to brand certain individuals as terrorists based on “suspicion,” denying them access to air travel and firearms, in a secret process not subject to review or appeal. In other news, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for a “gatekeeper” to help improve the Internet and make it safer for children. Meanwhile, Congress is continuing its moratorium on taxing the web, for an undisclosed period of time.
According to Reuters, communists and other regimes are managing Internet affairs through taxation, harassment or arrest of users who post undesirable content, and “‘contradictory and ill-defined’ provisions which might ‘give leverage for illegitimate limitation’” of free expression on the Internet, according to the OSCE report, according to Reuters.
Reuters continued, “In a speech to the OSCE parliament on Thursday, Kazakh Information Minister Yermukhamet Yertysbayev insisted Kazakhstan was determined to build democracy and create an ‘e-government’ expanding Internet service and making ‘our media more free, contemporary and independent’.”
