Experts say anonymity is the best protection against web censorship

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CNN.com provides a sweeping account of internet freedom and censorship, citing recent media stories like the firing of Scottish bookseller Joe Gordon, who lost his job after criticizing his boss on his weblog.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/12/19/internet.freedom/index.html

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• Gordon had worked for an Edinburgh branch of Waterstone's bookstore for 11 years, and lost his job after calling his boss "evil."
• Though he never named his boss or the company, he did hint at its identity, which was enough for Waterstone's to take action.
• Gordon was the first person in the UK to be sacked for blogging, raising questions about an employee's rights to be a private citizen in cyberspace versus an employer's right to protect its reputation.
• Gordon still writes a blog, and he was snapped up to work at a rival book company who liked his writing.
• But he told CNN that he is increasingly worried about the power of big corporations and their control over what is written about them on the Internet.
• Chinese journalist Shi Tao was arrested in November 2004, and sentenced to 10 years in prison last April, in a case underlining the stringent censorship regime that controls Chinese media.
• He was convicted of sending foreign-based web sites the text of a "top secret" government message that had been sent to his newspaper.
• CEO Lance Cottrell, who set up the company 10 years ago, told CNN that automatic privacy on the Internet was a common misconception.
• This is because every computer has an Internet Protocol (IP) address that other computers can see -- his company's technology blocks the identification of that address.
• Anonymizer is selective about who gets access to its service and strictly vets its users, by performing a credit and additional checks.
• Clarke told CNN that he designed Freenet for people living in places like Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, to help political dissidents in those countries.
• It was the mid-1990s and people thought the Internet was going to be a bastion of freedom of speech," he told CNN.

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