The Internets Black Holes
Posted in News by Dan at 5:40 pm
As we all know access to the internet is becoming more ubiquitous everyday, but sometimes you need to just escape it. Reporters Without Borders has come up with a list of 15 luxurious destinations that completely restrict access to the Internet (well and any other form of free communications). The countries include Maldives, Tunisia, Belarus, Libya, Syria, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Myanmar/Burma, Cuba, Turkmenistan, and North Korea. Pack up your suitcase – Iran here I come!
“destinations that completely restrict access to the Internet” – What’s up with this?! Most developed areas in china have access to the internet. The net in china it is censored not completely blocked out. That said i doubt that the great firewall of China stops the desperate who must have uncensored access. Censored or not its hardly a internet black hole. It seems like i just read somewhere that chinese is the second most common language on the net. -http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm- top three: English at 31.2%, chinese at 15.7 % and spanish at 8.7%. I’ll bet most of chinese speaking people browsing the net are in china.
seeing as its the second time in about a week
Dan its nothing personal – just the topic
I played warcraft with a guy that was living in Tehran…
I think we all understand what he meant to say, but perhaps he just didn’t fully grasp what was said. *shrug*