The number of states actively seeking to censor online content and access personal information is growing.
And the means employed - technical, social, legal, political - are increasingly sophisticated.
Interesting that the Australian government is charging ahead full gallop and damn the cannon to implement mandatory internet filters at the same time that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are talking about the need for "companies... to step up to the plate and be more aggressive in challenging unwarranted government interference".
Of course it's more than just a little ironic to hear that, of all the intrusive, controlling corporations out there, Microsoft are signing up for
privacy [as] "a human right and guarantor of human dignity,"
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