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Lausanne
Switzerland

Governments have no business censoring my internet

In many countries, governments fear the power of free speech in the internet and therefore want to "protect" their citizens from accessing certain content via the internet, especially via the worldwide web. For many years, the Google results for a specific search term vary from country to country due to legal restrictions telling Google what can or cannot be shown.

Initiatives are underway in numerous democratic countries (Australia, Denmark, France, Germany etc) to install central black lists blocking access to certain web sites for residents of the respective country. These initiatives seem to have in common that there is a list of blocked sites maintained by some authority, the access restrictions are to be enforced by the domestic internet service providers and the lists are secret, meaning that people are not allowed to know what the government doesn't want them to see.

Sites linking to leaked blacklists have found themselves blacklisted, too.

Join this spread if you feel mature enough to decide for yourself what you want to see on the internet and if you don't need your government to tell you what you are not allowed to see.

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i strongly believe that nobody but me should have the right to decide what I'm alllowed to see or read. There is no such thing as a dangerous idea that needs to be hidden from people. Likewise, I don't believe that people should be prevented by law from expressing certain "harmful" ideas.

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