Internet censorship rising

On September 19, Privacy International and the GreenNet Education Trust released their report, Silenced: an international report on censorship and control of the Internet. Among the report's major conclusions are (1) that internet censorship is commonplace around the world, and increasing, (2) that the 9/11 attacks have been used to justify restrictions previously rejected, (3) that censorship in developing nations is implemented by technologies developed and sold by the Western democracies, and (4) that corporations will soon surpass governments as threats to internet freedoms.