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"en.20121211.27.2-245-000"2
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"A quick scan of some events in the world shows that the struggle for human rights has moved online. Prisons are increasingly populated by dissidents confronted with their own Internet and mobile communications, compromised by the authorities. Iran continues the building of an electronic curtain, which will eventually cut off the Iranians from the World Wide Web through the creation of a ‘Halal Internet’. China is similarly cutting its citizens off from the open Internet with the great electronic firewall. Mass censorship violates citizens’ rights and narrows business opportunities. Plans are on the table to make anonymous blogging in China illegal. The Ben Ali government of Tunisia was, and the Al-Assad regime in Syria is, well known for their sophisticated use of technologies against citizens. The Syrian Electronic Army is now subject to ad hoc EU sanctions. Generally speaking, the fight for control and power by authoritarian regimes involves a growing ICT component. Promoting and defending human rights then means enabling people to circumvent mass censorship or to evade cyber attacks by their own governments. While training human rights defenders, journalists and dissidents should improve their safety online, it also creates a new set of sensitivities and a potentially dangerous dependency on the accuracy and quality of the guidance."@en1
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