Cuba, Iran lash out at Internet freedom

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In Cuba, only people with government permission can access the Internet, owning computer equipment is prohibited, and online writers have been imprisoned, according to Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based free speech watchdog group.
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Hey, we even got a neighbouring country with a baboon who would enforce similar s))(!@ if he had the faintest clue how.

Just thought you guys could use a little reality check to realise that we have a lot to be thankful for.... and soon will have a lot more.

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Remember the good old days? When a 1mbit connection cost R1500 and you had to actually work to get something done?
 
And these are the jokers who are pushing the hardest to take control from Icann. Soon we will only be allowed to read goverment issued news on the net if they have their way.
 
A recurring criticism of the WSIS summit was that wealthier nations had not done enough to help poorer ones take advantage of the Internet.

"The proceeds have not been equally shared by developing and developed countries," said Sudan President Omar Ahmad al-Bashir. "The digital divide is growing between the rich and the poor countries."
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WTF? As if the billions in AID and debt being written off wasn't enough.

What exactly are these so-called poor countries asking for? They want everything given to them!

As for the likes of Castro, Mugabe etc calling for more control of the internet nad the curbing of free speech, it should make countries like those that are westernised and ours really stand up and berate them.

Free speech is a right that is too often curtailed and now that Mad Bob has made it abundantly clear, our government should be taken to task for the support they are continually showing him and his regime.
 
Here's a cool comment from the CNET News site!

Gone Ballistic said:
To give an analogy of this that even a flustered "World Citizen" can understand, Some time ago I went to the local Super Walmart to buy dead wild beasts, grapes, figs, and mixed nuts to eat while reclining on my divan, to watch the circuses of the day.;) Anyway, I pulled into a very nice parking spot and got out. Whereupon a very ugly not so fair American of the fair gender yelled, "That's my spot!" You see, she had just been driving her huge non-renewable resource guzzling leviathon down the other isle, and was not even close to the spot when I parked. So I replied, "If it was YOUR spot, you would be parked in it already." Then I went in the store for the "Bread" to go with my "Circuses"
So, there it is "World Citizens"; If it was YOUR internet, you would already control it.
Now, were did I put that dart board with the UN emblem on it...
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ROFL!! Good one! I however haven't made up my mind completely. I do however currently lean towards US control...
 
antowan said:
ROFL!! Good one! I however haven't made up my mind completely. I do however currently lean towards US control...
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I dont like Bush unilateral control over the internet.
 
bwana v.5 said:
I dont like Bush unilateral control over the internet.
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Well, he is in his last term, so not too much of a worry. That is the nice thing about a stable democracy. The USA of today is not the USA of 5 or 6 years down the line...

The UN imo is a playpen for the 3rd world. Countries with very immature outlooks on medium and long term policies. Look at our own Minister of Communications! Would you want her on that Internet council in the UN? I honestly cannot atm figure the net in the hands of peeps like Mugabe and Gadaffi. To me that would be 100 times worse than GW Bush. :eek:

If it however ended up in a new regulatory body outside of the UN and in the hands of both Europe and the US, I might change my tune. I am still however building my opinion, so please do not take this as my final word.

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