20 Jun 2003

The Internet under Surveillance, 2nd Annual Report
Reporters sans Frontiers/Reporters without Borders, Paris, France.
Self-description: "The Internet is the bane of all dictatorial regimes, but even in democracies, new anti-terrorism laws have tightened government control of it and undermined the principle of protecting journalistic sources. This report is about attitudes to the Internet by the powerful in 60 countries, between spring 2001 and spring 2003. [...]
[Excerpts from the 'The Internet under Surveillance: Obstacles to the free flow of information online', Report on China] China - Population : 1,284,972,000; Internet users : 59,100,000; Privately-owned ISPs : no; Internet Users and cyber-dissidents in prison : 42. The number of Internet users doubles nearly every six months and the number of websites every year. But this dizzying growth is matched by the authorities' energetic attempts to monitor, censor and repress Internet activity, with tough laws, jailing cyber-dissidents, blocking access to websites, monitoring online forums and shutting down cybercafes."
Site contents: Reports on the censorship/surveillance of the Internet in: Afghanistan; Algeria; Australia; Azerbaijan; Bangladesh; Belarus; Belgium; Burma; Burundi; Canada; China; Cuba; Denmark; Egypt; European institutions; France; Germany; India; Iran; Italy; Japan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Laos; Liberia; Malaysia; Maldives; Mauritania; Morocco; Mozambique; New Zealand; North Korea; Pakistan; Philippines; Russia; Singapore; Somalia; South Africa; South Korea; Spain; Sri Lanka; Switzerland; Thailand; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United States; Uzbekistan; Vietnam; Zimbabwe.
URL http://www.rsf.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=378
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link suggested by Hanno Lecher (http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30