Imitating China: Internet Censorship Coming?

Raw Story features this article which talks about the possibility of government censorship of certain websites, just as is done in China. This is a dangerous precedent my friends.

Do not let this issue fall from your sights!

“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor said the US Senate was also considering a bill this week that would have the government create a blacklist of Internet sites that US ISPs would be required to block.

Twenty years after his breakthrough while working at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, Berners-Lee said “the net has got to a point that is so critical”.

Given the importance of the web in everyone’s lives, he urged the Internet experts gathered at the conference to act on the encroachment of the once free-for-all online world. “We have this duty of care,” he said.”