gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » democracy http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cleanternet For A Cleaner And Safer Internethttp://www.ghacks.net/2010/04/23/cleanternet-for-a-cleaner-and-safer-internet/ http://www.ghacks.net/2010/04/23/cleanternet-for-a-cleaner-and-safer-internet/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:33:49 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=24814 Countries all over the world, especially those that claim to be democratic (when in fact we all know that they are not), plan to introduce various control mechanisms to increase their control over the content that is published and shared on the Internet.

Cleanternet is satirical website that tries to educate Europeans (and users from other parts of the world) about the latest European Internet blocking plans.

Cleanternet is a campaign to support European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in her plans to introduce a website blocking system in Europe. All European countries must be forced to fight for a cleaner and safer Internet.

A video was created and uploaded to Youtube to illustrate the absurdity of the plans.

Enjoy the video and make sure you pass it along. (via Caschy)

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The first two bans have been lifted pretty fast after the videos had been removed by Youtube, it is unclear as of now which videos have been the reason for the ban. It would be nice if you could make a screenshot of the notice that you receive when visiting Youtube if you are accessing the Internet from Turkey.

My suggestion would be to try accessing Youtube by IP (http://208.65.153.253/) instead. If that is not working try a working proxy, this should work as always.

source: Futurezone.orf.at (Austrian)

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