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For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/23/pers-j23.htmlDate Written: 2018-01-23 Publisher: World Socialist Web Site Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX21988 In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted. Abstract: -- Excerpt: The United States government, in the closest collaboration with Google, Facebook, Twitter and other powerful information technology corporations, is implementing massive restrictions on Internet access to socialist, antiwar and progressive websites. Similar repressive policies are being enacted by capitalist governments in Europe and throughout the world. The new regime of censorship is being combined with an intensification of surveillance operations, aimed at monitoring what people read, write and think while on the Internet. The actions of this alliance of the state, military-intelligence agencies and oligopolistic technology corporations are a dangerous threat to freedom of speech and other core democratic rights. Subject Headings |