Net censorship

Around the world States and Countries are taking a controlling hand in what people can and cannot see/find/add to/comment on on the Internet.

'The survey found evidence of filtering in the following countries:
Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Burma/Myanmar, China, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, UAE, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Yemen.'

It is worth, at this time, considering the effect such filtering could have/would have if it was extended on the developing process of e-education.

For the full report read here.

On his blog Ewan McIntosh makes a links with the 'low level' controlling that happens within educational institutions. He argues;

"I'd like to see a continued evolution of thinking regarding blocking and filtering in schools, not with safety but rather with democracy and civil liberties in mind. The safety angle is, for me, on a technocratic tactical level. Where the digital literacy programmes of an organisation are weak the amount of command and control exercised is inversely related. And you know what they say about control; it has an inverse realtionship to trust."