Internet Censorship: Reports, ratings, and trends around the world

Internet censorship. the right to seek information and ideas; the right to receive information and ideas; the right to impart information and ideas. Internet History of the World Wide Web Email File sharing Videoconferencing Internet access Global Internet usage Wireless community network Censorship by country Freedom of speech by country Internet censorship by country Censorship in Australia Internet censorship in Australia Censorship in Malaysia Censorship in Algeria Censorship in Belarus Censorship in Bhutan Censorship in Brazil Censorship in Burma Censorship in Canada Censorship in the People's Republic of China Censorship in Cuba Censorship in Denmark Human rights in Eritrea Censorship in Finland Censorship in France Censorship in Germany Censorship in Hong Kong Censorship in India Censorship in Iran Censorship in Iraq Censorship in the Republic of Ireland Censorship in Israel Censorship in Italy Censorship in Japan Censorship in New Zealand Censorship in North Korea Censorship in Pakistan Censorship in the People's Republic of Poland Censorship in Portugal Censorship in Communist Romania Freedom of the press in the Russian Federation Censorship in Samoa Censorship in Saudi Arabia Censorship in Singapore Propaganda in the War in Somalia Censorship in South Korea Censorship in the Soviet Union Censorship in Sweden Censorship in the Republic of China Censorship in Thailand Censorship in Tunisia Censorship in Turkey Censorship in the United Kingdom Human rights in Uzbekistan Internet censorship in the United Kingdom Censorship in the United States Censorship in Venezuela Human rights in Zimbabwe OpenNet Initiative Crypto-anarchism Cypherpunk Freedom of information Free Haven Freenet Hacktivism Internet privacy Evercookie Digital camera Google Street View Facebook Myspace Social network Wikimania Electronic Frontier Foundation Yahoo! MSN Anonymous web browsing Spyware Firewall (computing) OpenVPN I2P Psiphon Java Anon Proxy Tor (anonymity network) HTTP tunnel Friend-to-friend GNUnet Internet censorship Blacklist Internet café Splinternet Freedom of speech Freedom of the press Reporters Without Borders Freedom House Political satire Social networking service Web hosting service Blog software Microblogging Censorship of Wikipedia Internet censorship circumvention Bing Criticism of Google Google Search Gmail List of Google products National Security Agency Central Intelligence Agency Google+ YouTube Don't be evil Photographs on the internet Today many people have digital cameras and post their photos online. The people depicted in these photos might not want to have them appear on the Internet. Social networking sites have become very popular within the last five years. With the creation of Facebook and the continued popularity of MySpace many people are giving their personal information out on the internet. These social networks keep track of all interactions used on their sites and save them for later use. Sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter have grown popular by broadcasting status updates featuring personal information such as location. Facebook “Places,” in particular, is a Facebook service, which publicizes user location information to the networking community. Police departments have reported using social media websites to assist in investigations, locate and track suspects, and monitor gang activity. Legal threats There have been allegations about connections between Google and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), going as far as saying that Facebook and Google are CIA fronts. U.S. intelligence agencies are reported to use Google software to support their work.