Left Out of the World Wide Web
As protests continue in Egypt, the government has cracked down by suspending the country’s Internet service and disrupting much of the cell-phone coverage. Reporters Without Borders closely monitors how nations restrict the Internet access of their citizens. Here are the worst violators.
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According to RWB, Saudi Arabia places strict filters on search results; banning sexually explicit content as well as information about religion, human rights, or government-opposition groups. The Telecommunications and Information Technologies ministry says that more than 90 percent of the banned material has more to do with porn than politics, but 55 percent of Saudi citizens say the filtering is excessive. Here, a journalist views the website of a blogger held in detention without charge for four months before being freed.
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