Did you know that governments have the power to censor the entire internet coming into their country?? This should not be a shocking truth but the pervading internet is watered down to people living in China and Iran. How about Turkey blocking YouTube? Big pipes come into the country and run through government proxy servers. The internet is filtered by every big company in America. China and Iran just run bigger proxy servers to get the job done. It should not be shocking that our fine government friends in these countries don't care for American style openness.
In what is likened to a cold war cat and mouse game, sites like The Voice of America find ways around proxy filtering, get blocked and then take on yet another identity only to eventually be detected, ad infinitum.
Here is another test to UGC freedom. Here is an interesting, recent article from Israel. What if the government held UGC sites liabel for misinformation or slander like they can with most established newspapers? Certain blogs want to become recognized as an "established news organization" on par with the New York Times. Litigation concerns should make these bloggers be careful for what they wish for in case they get it.
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Orkut and Skype are banned in Middle east and very limited access is available for online communities site.Similarly TV programs of Pakistan are banned in India and vise versa. but you can watch these programs on Internet.Information makes its way to the user and government regulations can not really stop it.Also I think it would be more beneficial if companies that use data and users who create data become more responsible towards the validity and correctness of information rather than waiting for government to intervene and bring laws against misinformants.
Dug, good lil' trinkets of thought regarding gov't censorship and intervention. Knowledge is never free; there is always a price, and always someone benefiting from it (or the lack of it)
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