Governments are silencing Internet free speech

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Governments across the globe are weakening the promise of the Internet as a 
refuge for free speech by intensifying monitoring and setting restrictions, 
a new study revealed. The study, Silenced, was made available at the World 
Summit on the Information Society in Geneva. Silenced showed that 
democratic governments have used the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 to pass 
laws, such as the Patriot Act in the United States, that allow a degree of 
intrusion into private records that would have seemed unbelievable before 
that date. The report also said that non-democratic governments are using 
Internet-related technology to take censorship to a level that would have 
otherwise been impossible, the article says. 

Source:
http://www.silicon.com/news/500022/1/6093.html?et=search