Trends in Cybercensorship: Book Review of Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Arik Hesseldahl interviews John Palfrey
Business Week: March 26, 2008

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc20080325_260847.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech

Blocking access to the Internet has become a standard “policy” option around the world. The editors of a new book, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering, published this month by the MIT Press, say this type of filtering is taking place in at least 25 countries—in Asia, North Africa, and even Europe. And U.S. technology companies are finding themselves torn between the open principles of their own country and the realistic need to do business in countries with restrictive regimes.

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