The Internet

Are we sliding, slow but sure, towards practices of control and of surveillance of Internet done clos to those of China? They do not speak here about nationalisation in Jacques Myard, but of these laws which for some years flourish in the democratic countries and strive towards a control always bigger on the access to contents. It is (Electronic Frontier Fondation) in an article calling to the struggle against censure in Australia. Summary.

In 2006, New York Times explained that the People's Republic of China defended its censure and its practices of surveillance on Internet by maintaining that they very did not differ from those used by the United States and of the European countries.

 If you look at main international practices in this domain, you will see that China is fundamentally in accordance with international norm  Liu Zhengrong, Chinese official in load of Internet explained.  Main objectives and modalities of application of our laws are principally the same  []  it is clear that the lawful authorities of any country watch nearly the broadcasting of illicit information. We noted that the United States do good job on this forehead. 

The Times noted several difference between restrictions of Internet in China and in liberal democracies. But researchers showed us that the governments of the whole world, including in Australia, seem eager to erode this difference. The claims of not democratic regimes consisting in saying that the censure of Internet and the national firebreakss are a generalised international norm could soon ring less hollow.