Reporters Without Borders: U.S. is the enemy of the internet...

Identifying government units or agencies rather than entire governments as Enemies of the Internet allows us to draw attention to the schizophrenic attitude towards online freedoms that prevails in in some countries. Three of the government bodies designated by Reporters Without Borders as Enemies of the Internet are located in democracies that have traditionally claimed to respect fundamental freedoms: the Centre for Development of Telematics in India, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in the United Kingdom, and the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States.

The NSA and GCHQ have spied on the communications of millions of citizens including many journalists. They have knowingly introduced security flaws into devices and software used to transmit requests on the Internet. And they have hacked into the very heart of the Internet using programmes such as the NSA’s Quantam Insert and GCHQ’s Tempora. The Internet was a collective resource that the NSA and GCHQ turned into a weapon in the service of special interests, in the process flouting freedom of information, freedom of expression and the right to privacy.

The mass surveillance methods employed in these three countries, many of them exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, are all the more intolerable because they will be used and indeed are already being used by authoritarians countries such as Iran, China, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to justify their own violations of freedom of information. How will so-called democratic countries will able to press for the protection of journalists if they adopt the very practices they are criticizing authoritarian regimes for?

http://12mars.rsf.org/2014-en/enemies-of-the-internet-2014-entities-at-the-heart-of-censorship-and-surveillance/

makes the list related to surveillance and national security, and so does Russia.


Russia has a whole set of ofther issues.

Russia Wipes Opposition Sites From The Internet
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024669215

Russia: Media black-out ahead of disputed Crimea referendum
https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/russia-media-black-out-ahead-disputed-crimea-referendum-2014-03-14

let alone keeping company with Russia and Iran is disgusting.

"let alone keeping company with Russia and Iran is disgusting. "

...is shutting down opposition sites is what is even more "disgusting."

At least American don't have to worry that the Government is going to pull the plug on DU or Fox Noise.

Russia Wipes Opposition Sites From The Internet
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024669215

The "No shit, Sherlock" moment is not recognizing that that countries engage in surveillance.

NSA reforms will effect change, but nothing is going to stop Putin from wiping opposition off the Internet.

We are not as bad as them.