Censure Internet

Although the Universal declaration of the human rights makes access to information an undeniable right (article 19), certain States seem, as for others Médias, to want to control Internet . In certain cases, certain associations, like Reporters without borders, show these States of Censure . Between 1999 and 2004, this association was even made the echo of a spectacular increase in filtering.

Techniques

Technologies employed can be blocking IP by router, and redirection DNS. Governments can block the contents of the Web which displease to them, while profiting nevertheless from what they regard as the advantages of the Internet.

According to RSF, countries as the Ouzbékistan create modified mirrors. Thus, for the Net surfer, the access to the sites of the political dissidents does not seem to be blocked. The authorities ouzbèkes would copy the discussed sites, then would modify them in order to sap or to weaken the prohibited standpoint. The Uzbek Net surfers reaching these sites then consult falsified copies. This type of handling will be perhaps detected by an expert, but it is extremely difficult to detect by the Net surfer lambda.

15 enemies of Internet

RSF published in 2005 a list of the fifteen enemies of Internet:

Saudi Arabia
Burma
China
Cuba
Iran
Libya
Maldives
Syria
Tunisia

The cuban example

The Cubans are equipped little out of computer material (3,3 computers for 100 inhabitants, i.e. one of the lowest rates of the world) and it exists one operator in the country, company ETEC SA

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