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BBC NEWS | Technology | Yahoo 'censored' Flickr comments More news on the recent censorship by Yahoo of Rebekka Gudleifsdóttir from the BBC.

The motto of next year’s Olympic games in China is “one world, one dream.” Online, the world is actually split up into several countries, each with their own limited view, made possible through national censorship of the web.

“For Internet users in China, Google remains the only major search engine that does not censor any web pages.” – The Google Team, 2004

Outspoken atheist Nick Gisburne claims that the staff of Google-owned YouTube deleted his account simply because he posted a selection of Quran quotations, among other religious criticism. In a video he released on February 8th, he states:

At YouTube, You can say pretty much whatever You want, as long as it's not about Islam. If that's not true, YouTube user Nick Gisburne begs to differ after his account – his entire account – was deleted for its "inappropriate content." What exactly did he say? Well, nothing really. He let the Koran speak for itself.

One Chinese blogger stays on the move, uses multiple blogs, and says the demand for non-corrupt political officials is the real foe of censorship.

The OpenNet Initiative claims the oppressive regime of Myanmar uses technology from a California company to censor Internet usage.