News: Saudi Religious police to have less power

[cratehorus]

The worst internet offender in the world according to the UN is Iran, North Korea doesn't even make the list, Estonia is technically worse, but I think China (which the UN rates #2) is really the worst currently they have over 1 billion people and aren't involved with any real, military conflict.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/glo...-offenders

The US also has internet monitoring and censorship, mostly thanks to "the Patriot act" although most people don't realize it. I imagine people in China walk around, like most Americans, with no real idea that they're being monitored and censored. I imagine they don't understand certain websites aren't available to them, I imagine they would even have somekind of a, well thought-out argument, as too why these sites should be banned, monitored, and/or censored to the public

On April 6, 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the FBI and DHS over the USA PATRIOT Act's authority to demand that a business hand over records that may contain private financial or business information that is not pertinent to an ongoing investigation. The specific action in question was the request of the FBI and DHS for the account information for users of an Internet service provider.

Citing possible secrecy provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Department of Justice prevented the ACLU from releasing the text of a countersuit for three weeks. After judicial and congressional oversight, sections of the countersuit that did not violate secrecy rules of the USA PATRIOT Act were released.

The lawsuit filed by the ACLU was dropped on October 27, 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Controversy

EDIT: China actually dropped to number #3 worst, the new report just came out from freedom house 2 days ago

http://www.rr.com/finance/finance/articl...ernet_Most
http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freed...m-net-2012