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[Nilocy]

Ok, so at work while extremely bored and exhausted I had a good idea. To start this thread.

What its about; the recent news that New Zealand has adopted a form of internet/mobile communications monitering had me think; exactly how many countries had these forms of internet restrictions and where are they?

So, what I propose is that we gather as much factual (and useful) information relating to internet rights, post them here and decide on what status we should colour in a country. This is a long term project mind you, so don't expect it to be amazing to begin with.

The rules:
1. Everything has to be sourced, up to date and of usefulness. For example, we would like to hear from you about a country your living in that has laws that restrict any sort of internet activity. Or just information on other countries. With newspaper articals/videos, leaked government files and stuff... basically anything you can get your mitts on legally.
2. Don't bicker about anything, this is a forum-wide project.
3. Constructive critism only please, if you have something mean to say don't say it at all.

So how I propose the system works: Each country will be coloured in in turn according to the severity of internet restrictions, using the ROYGBIV system. Starting with Blue then moving down to Green, Yellow, Orange and then finally Red.

But what I get stuck with is what the colours should represent, my initial thoughts were that it could be something like, Blue is where theres no internet specific laws, green there is some banning illegal file sharing, yellow could be something like active campaigning by government to increase restrictions (may already have censorship laws, ip blocking)... I'll need your lots help on this one.

I plan to colour in this lovely map.

So... thoughts?

[Zai]

Let me just tread over your internet rights.

There. Now you have none.

[Muz]

China is definitely Red.

Malaysia has some censorship, but mostly political blogs and Malaysian porn. You can be a douche on the Internet, but it's only bad if you speak on against the gov't on a blog. They don't censor Facebook politics and such. Yellow then?

Australia seems to be trying to go ahead with some filter.

I'm not sure if Internet monitoring counts as a restriction. Because of the way the net works, everyone has some form of monitoring, it's just whether or not they admit it.

[ChairmanPoo]

it's only bad if you speak on against the gov't on a blog.

That's pretty red in my book. At the very least orange. But I'd write it down as red.

I'd consider yellow dubious anti-filesharing laws. Yellow-orange when these start getting out of bounds, or are very steep (IE: Sarkozy's). Orange when it gets beyond that into various surveillance systems (IE: SITEL)

[Jude]

Would Blue be absolute freedom to do whatever the fuck you want including scams and such

[Muz]

They sort of stopped enforcing it, though. And thing about Malaysian enforcement is that they only enforce it on one or two people, then get too lazy. It was a lame excuse as to why they did horribly in the last elections. "The opposition are spreading lies about us through blogs and SMS!" I think they got over it, at least till the next election.

EDIT: Eh, this was in response to ChairmanPoo.

[Idiom]

Would Blue be absolute freedom to do whatever the fuck you want including scams and such

Nigeria?

[kuro_suna]

heres a good start,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

[Lord Dullard]

Huh. I knew Australia was batcrap crazy over censoring games, but I didn't realize they were also batcrap crazy about policing the internet.

[eerr]

Naa, just the ones they can get away with censoring.

[Cheeetar]

Some people make proposals about censoring particular sites etc. but nothing has actually happened so far. (to my knowledge)

[Nilocy]

What I really want to see this evolve into is like... a type of weird diary thing of world internet restriction stuff... see how its spreads (gets worse or better etc.). But we have to set up some proper rules so we can be as fair as possible.

[sonerohi]

United States is green. We only have laws on filesharing and pornography.

[ChairmanPoo]

United States is green. We only have laws on filesharing and pornography.

 US is yellow, along with Europe. Sorryz

[ChairmanPoo]

btw, I think that the level of enforcement of internet laws is not the major factor for color rating, given how difficult is to enforce such things in the first place (Even China fails, despite their Great Firewall). The very fact that such laws exist (or not) serves as a declaration of intentions, even if ultimatedly they are not enforced.