The world is cracking down on the Internet, and each country is bringing its own tool set to achieving that end. That Russia, Thailand, China, The Middle East,

The world is cracking down on the Internet, and each country is bringing its own tool set to achieving that end. That Russia, Thailand, China, The Middle East, etc use the rule of law isn't suprising. It's how these countries work. They have strong leaderships, and those leaderships do the enforcing. Western "liberal" nations are ruled via the invisible hand of capitalism, and that censorship is coming accidentally from these organisations. A popular website switches off comments. Social Media Companies pull users away from distributed systems like email and IRC to heavily managed systems like Twitter and Facebook. Seemingly unrelated light-touch legislation (e.g. copyright) is used by individuals and corporates to ensure transgressive individuals are denied a voice and are threatened with job losses and other punishments. "The world cracks down on the Internet". I'd be a fool to assume that this is happening everywhere else but where I am.