Reporters Without Borders warned on Monday that security "abuses" by the world's governments in the year since the 11 September attacks in the United States have increasingly put the Internet under the control of security services.
"Basic Internet freedoms have clearly been cut back," said the organisation's secretary-general, Robert Ménard, and the Internet can be put on the list of the "collateral damage" caused by the "tragic events" in New York and Washington and the drive for tighter security. Many governments had also used the pretext of the anti-terrorism drive to curb basic freedoms or crack down on their domestic opponents using the Internet.
Robert Ménard spoke as Reporters Without Borders published a report, The Internet on Probation, detailing the concerted attacks on Internet freedoms around the world over the past year.
"Basic Internet freedoms have clearly been cut back," said the organisation's secretary-general, Robert Ménard, and the Internet can be put on the list of the "collateral damage" caused by the "tragic events" in New York and Washington and the drive for tighter security. Many governments had also used the pretext of the anti-terrorism drive to curb basic freedoms or crack down on their domestic opponents using the Internet.
Robert Ménard spoke as Reporters Without Borders published a report, The Internet on Probation, detailing the concerted attacks on Internet freedoms around the world over the past year.