SAN FRANCISCO — The freedom represented by the Internet does not extend to all countries, says a new Reporters Without Borders report that faults a dozen nations for engaging in an “almost systematic repression of Internet users.”
The Paris-based international group counted four Asian countries among this dirty dozen: China, Vietnam, North Korea and Burma. Five Islamic nations shared the dubious distinction: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Syria and Tunisia. Rounding out the list were the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and Cuba, where Raul Castro only recently made it legal for his countrymen to buy mobile phones and computers, devices long proscribed by his brother, Fidel.
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