internet politics for the rest of the world

We are focusing fairly specifically on experiences of North Americans in this course, but we should understand also how much more pressing good old fashioned government censorship remains for much of the world. Read the short piece from ArsTechnica here and also "Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide." We should be worried about net neutrality in the US--the likely results of losing it are frightening--but I would maintain that government censorship is significantly more dangerous than capitalist enterprises trying to maximize profits.