The Internet and the ‘Axis of (Censored)’ – John McCain and Jon Kyl

 News  Photos 2006 02 19 Mccainkyl From USA Today (link):

The Internet and the ‘Axis of (Censored)’ During Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, the Pora youth movement mobilized thousands of demonstrators to protest fraudulent elections. In the revolution’s aftermath, Pora’s leaders were asked what single element was central to the movement’s role in Ukraine’s democratic transition. Was it money? International assistance? Trained organizers? No, the youth of Pora used the Internet.

Google’s decision to launch a censored version of its search engine for China has made headlines in recent weeks, and rightly so. By Google’s own admission, Google.cn omits content objectionable to the Chinese government, including Web pages that discuss democracy, human rights, religion and political dissent ” the very speech that we cherish as a basic human right.

But questions of freedom on the Internet extend far beyond Google’s new cooperation with Beijing.



John McCain and Jon Kyl are Republican U.S. senators from Arizona.

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