I'd better watch it...

Internet Under Surveillance 2004 : Obstacles to the free flow of information online : Excellent site describing the efforts to restrict access to online information by country. I read a few, skimmed a few, and although a lot of the incidents are obviously unfair and shameful [naughty, naughty], some are quite complex and I really can't tell which side I'm on. For example, in Canada, one of the most hooked up [net-wise] as well as one of the least net-monitoring in the world, a judge ruled against US-based Washington Post on behalf of a newly accepted Canadian citizen having been accused of professional errors while in Kenya. Saying that the Post should have realized that these accusations would follow the accusee around the world [accusations which amount to libel or something, I guess] and was not forced to put such an article online. It certainly makes sense that an institution should take greater care when publishing to the world [as we all do on the web] but the article points out that this could result in a stifling of web writers/editors for fear of being prosecuted by any of the 192 independant states in the world.