[New-Poetry] RSF lIsts 13 "enemies of the internet" / go vote

[Anny Ballardini]

Hi Gregory,

where did you find this info?
thank you, Anny

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> Reporters Without Borders lists 13 "enemies of the Internet"
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> The campaigning group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday listed 13
> countries it labelled as "enemies of the Internet" ahead of a 24 hour 
> campaign
> in favour of free access to the web.  The 13 countries are: Saudi Arabia,
> Belarus, Myanmar, China, North Korea, CUBA, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, 
> Syria,
> Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.  Three countries were removed from
> RSF's 2005 list -- Libya, the Maldives and Nepal.  However the inclusion 
> of
> Egypt was because "President Hosni Mubarak is displaying an
> authoritarianism towards the Internet that is particularly worrying," RSF 
> said
> -- noting the recent imprisonment of three pro-democracy bloggers.  RSF is
> asking the public to register on its Internet site in "defense of on-line 
> free
> expression and the fate of bloggers in repressive countries."
>
> Live free or die.  Go vote.
>
> Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino
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> http://eratio.blogspot.com/
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