How the open net closed its doors

This should come as a surprise to no one, as we have known all along that governments do not like their citizens having voices of their own.

Like middlemen everywhere, they fear people will discover governments are unnecessary for communications between them.

A new book details the extent to which countries across the globe are increasingly censoring online information they find strategically, politically or culturally threatening.

Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering challenges the long-standing assumption that the internet is an unfettered space where citizens from around the world can freely communicate and mobilise. In fact, the book makes it clear that the scope, scale and sophistication of net censorship are growing.

Read more here, while you still can.