Asia-Pacific governments chip away at Internet freedom

Posted in: Censorship at 06/11/2010 19:39

[AFP] The tentacles of government censors are creeping ever further across the web in the Asia-Pacific region as officials from Thailand to Australia try to control what people say and do online.

Aside from China, which has a vast army of censors operating behind what has been dubbed the "Great Firewall", other countries are also taking steps to restrict access to the Internet.
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