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Article

16 Sep 2005

Author:
Ron Chepesiuk, Vermont Guardian [USA]

Blocking the net: Corporations help governments shut down the information superhighway

...[Some] of the world’s biggest multinationals and high tech companies are complicit in this trend [of censoring the Internet]...Last June, the OpenNet Initiative (ONI)...[documented] how the Iranian government has used the commercial filtering software SmartFilter [made by Secure Computing] to control every aspect of its citizens’ cyber experience...ONI accused Secure Computing of complicity in helping Iran violate the UN Declaration of Human Rights. [also refers to Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!]