Meanwhile, those campaigning against the seemingly unstoppable spread of online pornography involving children may be intrigued by the ease with which the Indian government apparently manages to block all material featuring sex of any kind. And they told us it couldn't be done.
Friday, 22 January 2010
Internet is not Utopia Shock
The wave of horrified amazement which greeted the news that the Chinese, Iranian and other regimes allergic to debate use the internet to spy on their citizens is in itself rather shocking. It's surely tailor-made for the job, leaving as it does a permanent trail of one's communications and contacts like an indelible stain on the carpet. The real tragedy is not that dissidents and free thinkers are being spied upon - as they have been since the 16th Century at least - but that anyone was naive enough to be surprised.
