Internet Censorship Storm Is Coming, Warns Google’s Eric Schmidt
June 29, 2011 No CommentsGoogle Chair Eric Schmidt has sounded an alarm that Arab states in the throes of revolution will clamp down on the Internet. However, censorship of Internet content is not restricted to those countries or to authoritarian states like China, North Korea and Iran. “Great Britain, France, Germany and South Korea all filter the Internet, and the United States is moving rapidly into doing so,” noted law professor Derek Bambauer.