Thread: The Rising Tide of Internet Censorship

The Rising Tide of Internet Censorship

By James Corbett
The Corbett Report
February 5, 2010

Will recent successes in fighting internet controls be enough to stave off tyranny?

The focus is back on Internet censorship this week as a pair of articles from Time Magazine and The New York Times came out almost simultaneously advocating for licences to operate web sites. These articles were skillfully skewered by Paul Joseph Watson as lame attempts to shore up a disintegrating establishment media in the face of a blogosphere that is increasingly replacing them.

The articles follow on calls by Craig Mundie—Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer—for an Internet licencing system. Introducing the idea, he said “We need a kind of World Health Organization for the Internet.â€

COME ON...Who is behind this push for internet censorship?

And as far as silensing Americans....NEVER!