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Human rights and wrongs online
Mark Rasch, 2006-03-13

A government's position on censorship used to protect its citizenry is dictated by who they are. The well-popularized censorship of Internet content in China by Google and other big players, and criticism of this by the U.S. government, is really just the tip of the iceburg.

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Human rights and wrongs online 2006-03-13
Matthew Murphy
I don't think the line is quite as black/white as you make it seem.

Take for instance DMCA/COPA. These are examples of ill-conceived censorship that severely harms individuals' rights without anywhere near a substantive gain in the objective they're trying to achieve (copyright protection, prote...

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