Ebook: Enemies of the Internet - Countries under surveillance

World Day Against Internet Censorship, 12 March 2010. In authoritarian countries in which the traditional media are state-controlled, the Internet offers a unique space for discussion and information-sharing, and has become an ever more important engine for protest and mobilization.The Internet is the crucible in which repressed civil societies can revive and develop. The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet.The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.