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Posted on 30/11/06

Scaling the walls of Web censorship

With a report from Geoffrey York

TORONTO -- All you can see on the video clip is a laptop computer and a man's hands. He goes to Google and enters a search: "women's issues." When he clicks on the resulting links, though, every site is blocked. He is in Iran, one of more than 40 countries that filter the Internet in some way, and one of 12 that have a pervasive filtration system that blocks content.

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