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North Korea is colored red with no explanatory text... is that just to say "come on, it's North Korea?"
You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea
> Red Star OS features a modified Mozilla Firefox browser titled Naenara used for browsing the Naenara web portal on the North Korean intranet network known as Kwangmyong. [1]
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>China does not want its citizens' informations in America's XKeyScore nor it's citizens Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, etc data in America's PRISM. The is a laughable justification. If you actually believe in freedom of information you cannot condone China's policy, no matter how much you dislike America.
Nope, just providing some information to contextualize policy decisions by various countries. Who said I'm justifying China's policy, or what I "dislike America"?
Never knew that the Netherlands and Brazil are the only countries in the world that have net neutrality as a law. Like with legal euthanasia, drugs, gay marriage, etc., as a Dutchman I'm amazed at how non-liberal much of the world is.
"Personal data protected"? So it is protected while our government stores it for 6 to 12 months?
I think this is quite good
There is a lot freedom in Poland, only because our retarded government has figure out yet how powerful internet is.
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Nope, just providing some information to contextualize policy decisions by various countries. Who said I'm justifying China's policy, or what I "dislike America"?
Your comment comes across as China is just avoiding the West's intelligence services but most of their censorship is for internal control. You don't ban all reference to June 4th because you are protecting your citizens from the NSA.
These issues are extremely complex and no single article or HN comment is going to cover it in it's entirety. I think the second bullet point is awfully good justification for China to have a 'less free internet score'. I'm definitely not going to claim that China doesn't engage in domestic censorship outside of international pressures - I believe they absolutely do.
But that's a different issue and not what I was trying to establish. In part, the comment is a good opportunity to alert people who don't understand that weaponization of media (psyops warfare) is prevalent on the internet today - including the 'free countries'. Thankfully, readers will observe this section of the thread and get clarity. :)