Map of Countries That Censor the Internet

[lurker]

http://gizmodo.com/a-map-of-the-countries-that-censor-the-internet-1130233580

Green shows the countries you want to live in because they have little to no Internet censorship. Yellow reveals countries that you might not want to stay in too long because they might increase censorship in the future. And if you love the Internet, you should probably avoid every other color because they all have different degrees of censorship, with pink being the most pervasive (gray is not classified).
The OpenNet Initiative pegs the colors as such:

• Pervasive - A large portion of content in several categories is blocked. (Pink)
• Substantial - A number of categories are subject to a medium level of filtering or many categories are subject to a low level of filtering. (Light Pink)
• Selective - A small number of specific sites are blocked or filtering targets a small number of categories or issues. (Light Yellow)
• Changing Situation - It is suspected, but not confirmed, that Web sites are being blocked. (Yellow)
• Little or No Censorship - No evidence of blocked Web sites, although other forms of controls may exist. (Green)

The classification of censorship depends on political censorship like human rights and government opposition, social censorship which is basically like porn, conflict/security censorship which deals with militant groups and various Internet tool censorship like e-mail and search. To no one's surprise, countries like China and Iran are the worst offenders of Internet censorship.


What's interesting is that Afghanistan is Green. :P

 

[uetian]

WRONG !!
The creator of this map should download a Torrent of copyrighted material (especially multimedia files of latest releases) in Europe/North-America and then get the real idea of how internet is controlled :P

 

[Argonaut]

USA and Europe listed as countries with "little or no censorship". Ridiculous.

Forcing websites to shut down, prosecuting website owners and users and snooping on every click you make on your computer is obviously not considered censorship by the bozos who created this so called report.

 

[lurker]

I had lived in the US for 15 years. I did not find any censorship what so ever. I did get a notice from MGM for Stargate Atlantis once. But that's not censorship; that is MGM defending its copyrights. As far as snooping goes, even before the Internet; it is very easy to find and track anyone in the US. I think if you search for my name in Google, I am the 7th hit. ;) It's the connected nature and open nature of the society in the US. Big deal.

It's a wonderful prosperous place to live your life. Where your Government is not going to be your nanny. lol. Sigh.. I wish I was there again. Ameen.