Chart of the Day (2): Who censors the web more?
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 12:03AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Chart of the day, connectivity

Economist piece on the "balkanizing web."

Admit it, you would have expected China, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc. to be on top of this list (governments' content-removal requests to Google).

Instead we get Brazil (democracy), Germany (democracy), India (democracy), the US (democracy), South Korea (democracy), and so on.

Of course, this is a gross measure, so perhaps all this says is that these states are more connected and allow the freest content and so it makes eminent sense that the most abuses are encountered--and countered--on their sites.

But still, a bit counter-intutive--ja?

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