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U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web

Middle East Web Censorship

First Posted: 03/28/11 05:44 PM ET Updated: 05/28/11 06:12 AM ET

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The Wall Street Journal:

As Middle East regimes try to stifle dissent by censoring the Internet, the U.S. faces an uncomfortable reality: American companies provide much of the technology used to block websites.


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As Middle East regimes try to stifle dissent by censoring the Internet, the U.S. faces an uncomfortable reality: American companies provide much of the technology used to block websites. ...
As Middle East regimes try to stifle dissent by censoring the Internet, the U.S. faces an uncomfortable reality: American companies provide much of the technology used to block websites. ...
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12:04 PM on 03/29/2011
All of these products can be bypassed using a VPN. Information is harder to contain than it is to spread. Much harder.

Ironically, the most popular VPN products being used to bypass the filters in the middle east and China are from the U.S.
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