The big business of net censorship

Over at Comment is Free, Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville is talking about the privatisation of censorship on the Internet.

“[The Internet] is a revolution not just in terms of technology, but in terms of who does the censoring. It’s no longer just the big boys — the media magnates, the state, corporations; there are a whole host of middlemen who now play a part in deciding what we can and cannot read. Most important of all, much of what they do is not transparent and there is even a level of secrecy that is protected by law.”

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