Hello All,<br><br><a href="http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29031" target="_blank">http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29031</a><br><br>"The post-9/11 world is now clearly drawn," Reporters Without Borders said. "Destabilised and on the defensive, <b>the leading democracies are gradually eroding the space for freedoms</b>.
The economically most powerful dictatorships arrogantly proclaim their
authoritarianism, exploiting the international community's divisions
and the ravages of the wars carried out <b>in the name of the fight against terrorism</b>.
Religious and political taboos are taking greater hold by the year in
countries that used to be advancing down the road of freedom."<br>
<br>The write up says on online repression "In Egypt (146th),
demonstrations launched online shook the capital and alarmed the
government, which now regards every Internet user as a potential
danger. The use of Internet filtering is growing by the year and the
most repressive governments do not hesitate to jail bloggers. While
China still leads the "Internet black hole" ranking worldwide,
deploying considerable technical resources to control Internet users,
Syria (159th) is the Middle-East champion in cyber-repression. Internet
surveillance is so thorough there that even the least criticism posted
online is sooner or later followed by arrest."<br>
<b><br>Online Freedom is being curbed in the name of a fight against security threats ?</b><br><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>ISOC India Chennai. <br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy</a></font>