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More countries restrict Internet to stifle critics: report

published by Tom Sullivan on Tue, 2012-09-25 09:36

Government restrictions on the Internet have risen over the past year around the world as regimes use violence against bloggers and turn to censorship and arrest to squelch calls for reform, a new report from a U.S. advocacy group has found.

Pakistan, Bahrain and Ethiopia saw the biggest rollbacks in Internet freedom since January 2011 and were among the 20 countries out of 47 assessed by Freedom House that declined in their rankings.

In contrast Tunisia, Libya and Burma, all countries that have seen dramatic political opening or regime changes, improved over previous years along with 14 other countries, the U.S. group, which advocates democracy and open societies, said.

Source and full story: Yahoo News/Reuters, 24 Sept 2012

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Submitted by Crimes of Zion on Thu, 2012-09-27 02:49.

I've seen some possible censorship by Google on a popular article I wrote about Frank Lowy in 2007 (Lowy was co-lessee of the WTC complex with Larry Silverstein). Here is the gist of it:

Update, Sunday, July 1, 2012: This article has been 'Orwelled' by Google, as this commentator observes. It regularly listed at second place on a Google search of 'frank lowy', but has now disappeared completely. So has the long list of "LINKS TO THIS POST", below the comments. However, a search for 'frank lowy 9/11' still displays this page in first place on Google, and Yahoo! is still ranking this page more or less as Google used to (search here, screen shot here).

I first noticed it late last year but didn't write the above addendum until months later. Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing with their own stuff? Andie531, maybe?

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