Moreover, Tajikistan has announced plans to censor the Internet in general and Facebook in particular.

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Across the Gulf, governments have relied on tools from American and Canadian companies to censor the Internet.

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"I think they're absolutely mistaken, " Arizona Rep. Ted Vogt said of bloggers and civil liberties groups that said the bill would censor the Internet.

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Major online web hosting giant GoDaddy.com recently learned its own lesson in the power of a boycott after they announced their support for SOPA, a bill that critics say would effectively censor the internet.

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Prosecutors and civil plaintiffs insist they don't want to censor the Internet, and maintain the case is about enforcing Italy's privacy rules as well as ensuring large corporations do their utmost to block inappropriate content, or quickly delete it.

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Max Mosley is suing Google in France and Germany in an attempt to force the internet company to monitor and censor search results about his alleged sado-masochistic orgy.

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Second, because nobody controls the internet, it has proved hard to censor.

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Rather, it would give them massive amounts of control over the internet, as they can deem which sites are harmful to their brand and effectively censor them should they link to anything remotely resembling their copyrighted material.

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