[Chapter-delegates] Reporters Sans Frontieres 2008 Index of Press Freedom.

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello All,

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29031

"The post-9/11 world is now clearly drawn," Reporters Without Borders said.
"Destabilised and on the defensive, *the leading democracies are gradually
eroding the space for freedoms*. The economically most powerful
dictatorships arrogantly proclaim their authoritarianism, exploiting the
international community's divisions and the ravages of the wars carried out
*in the name of the fight against terrorism*. Religious and political taboos
are taking greater hold by the year in countries that used to be advancing
down the road of freedom."

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."
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Online Freedom is being curbed in the name of a fight against security
threats ?*


-- Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
ISOC India Chennai.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy
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