Originally published December 14 2005
Nintendo restricts access to violent video games
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The new Revolution console from Nintendo will allow users to require passwords for games that have ratings aimed at older gamers like "T" for "teen" and "M" for "mature." The new Xbox 360 also lets users restrict access.
Tunisia is able to censor Internet traffic because most Tunisians log on through a cybercafe or an Internet service provider affiliated with the government, according to a study released in conjunction with a U.N. technology summit there.
The OpenNet Initiative said that of the nearly 2,000 sites it had tested from within the country, 10 percent were blocked.
They were mostly sites devoted to political opposition, human rights, pornography and tools to circumvent the country's controls.
The study said Tunisia uses SmartFilter software from Secure Computing Corp. of San Jose, Calif.
Secure Computing spokesman David Burt said the company sells to service providers around the world without making any distinctions about whether they are government-owned or how they use its products.
Researchers found that all of the country's ISPs buy access through Tunisia's Internet Agency, allowing the government to impose centralized filtering.
Furthermore, cybercafes used by most of the public are required to monitor their customers' access.
The report was released Wednesday as the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society opened in Tunis.
The OpenNet Initiative is a collaboration of Harvard University, the University of Toronto and the University of Cambridge.
It previously studied censorship in China, Iran and Singapore.
On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch issued a 148-page report that documents censorship in Tunisia, Syria, Iran and Egypt.
It called on those governments to continue investing in improving access rather than divert funds to surveillance or censorship technology.
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