Internet censorship - a growing issue

Here's an interesting project from the Guardian in the UK - a map illustrating different levels of internet censorship around the world. It's early days for the project, in fact they don't even seem to have data for most of the developed world, but it will be interesting to see how it develops.

Here in the UAE, Flikr is banned and so are all sorts of other dodgy websites. Personally, can't say I notice much beyond things my friends are talking about that I can't see on Flikr...but every now and then you follow a link sent by a friend to something quite innocent, and it comes up as banned. It can be quite infuriating.

There's an article here for anyone interested.