Topic Proposal: Internet Censorship and Content Filtering

If you have Comcast internet, you may have noticed that they throttle Bittorrent traffic.  If you live in the Middle East (and places in the Far East), when going to a site that has speech against the ideals of the current regime, you are met with a message letting you know that they’re protecting you from dangerous people on the Internet.  Internet Censorship is a fancy way to tell people what they can and cannot do with ideas and information.  The fact that governments use this to control what their people think about the outside world is evidence of the problem.

Flickr from Dubai:
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