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US: Fox News, CNN, 'embedded journalists' in US military campaign reporting. About censorship bills brought in by dubious 'five horseman of the internet apocalypse' arguments, yes. Honestly though, almost every nation I've lived in or have citizenship has equivalent rules (Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, China, UK). The US perhaps doesn't but it's still bullshit to hold it up as any kind of do-gooder because it would be hard to argue that its recent actions have any positive outcome for the internet (re: extralegal persecution of Wikileaks, MegaUpload, pervasive PRISM surveillance, encouragement of allies to do the same, peddling of lofty-sounding international agreements by bribery/cocercion to effect 'IP law' changes that essentially undermine funamental freedoms, domestic shackling of IANA, politicization of DNS, etc.) After visiting it on the eve of its new government, I wonder how Tunisia is doing with enacting freedom-protecting internet legislation? I wonder if perhaps, perversely, Germany might be doing OK in this regard? |