Reporters Without Borders: Dictators Catch On To Web 2.0

As part of its annual report on world press freedom, the organization Reporters sans frontières/Reporters Without Borders included a section on the use of the Internet by dissidents and human rights activists and the increasing crackdown by repressive authorities:

"Unfortunately, this progress and use of new tools by activists is now being matched by the efforts of dictatorships to fight them. Dictators too have entered the world of Web 2.0."

Earlier Library Boy posts on the topic of Internet censorship include:

• Repression Precedes UN-Sponsored Info Summit in Tunisia (November 15, 2005)
• Report on Internet Filtering in Tunisia (November 21, 2005)
• Background to the Google Censorship Issue in China (January 31, 2006)
• More on the Google China Censorship Controversy (February 1, 2006)
• Toronto Academics Get Huge Grant to Fight Internet Censorship (February 7, 2006)
• More on China Internet Censorship (February 13, 2006)
• Helping Citizens in Repressive Societies Get Around Censorship (February 13, 2006)
• "The Nation" Commentary on China Internet Censorship Issue (March 1, 2006)
• Amnesty International Launches Campaign Against Internet Censorship (May 29, 2006)
• Internet Filtering Map (June 2, 2006)
• Amnesty International Report on Internet Firms and Censorship in China (July 24, 2006)