2. Communication and publication can’t be censored. Except in places it can. * Turkey vs. YouTube and some Google features * Iran vs. social, video, and news

2. Communication and publication can’t be censored. Except in places it can. * Turkey vs. YouTube and some Google features * Iran vs. social, video, and news sites * China vs. ... well, damn near everybody * the US is even in on the act (thanks, DMCA) See this article for more (and of course, that article hasn't been censored ... right?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship This page has a decent map giving a gauge of just how much censorship is judged to be happening in a given location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country ... along with a plethora of details about each country's activities. There's a link to a full page for each country, and -- sadly -- it's too much to even try summarizing here. What's troubling is that the censorship is not decreasing, but increasing. Technologies to get around it are improving, sure, but the technologies to censor in the first places are spreading and improving as well. The point is - there's no certainty that eventually free speech on the internet will prevail and censors (or even a fraction of them) will give up.