<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><span>http://economist.com/node/16963563<br><br></span><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">GOVERNMENTS are increasingly finding ways to enforce their laws in the
digital realm. The most prominent is China’s “great firewall”. But China
is by no means the only country erecting borders in cyberspace. The
OpenNet Initiative, an advocacy group, lists more than a dozen countries
that block internet content for political, social and security reasons.
They do not need especially clever technology: governments go
increasingly after dominant online firms because they are easy to get
hold of. In April Google published the numbers of requests it had
received from official agencies to remove content or provide information
about users. For more on how governments and companies are erecting
borders in cyberspace see <a href="http://economist.com/node/16941635">article</a>.<br><span id="0532ee1a-a605-44f2-b9e4-0affdde7ac22"><br><span name="x"></span><div><div><div>Franck Martin<br><a href="http://www.avonsys.com/" mce_href="http://www.avonsys.com/">http://www.avonsys.com/</a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Avonsys" mce_href="http://www.facebook.com/Avonsys">http://www.facebook.com/Avonsys</a><br>twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FranckMartin" mce_href="http://twitter.com/FranckMartin">FranckMartin</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/avonsys" mce_href="http://twitter.com/avonsys">Avonsys</a><br><br>Check your domain reputation: <a href="http://gurl.im/b69d4o" mce_href="http://gurl.im/b69d4o">http://gurl.im/b69d4o</a><br></div></div></div><span name="x"></span><br></span><br></div></body></html>