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Aug 5 2011: I wish to note however that my work has been
focusing on allowing citizens in the Arab world and Iran to
access political content blocked by their repressive regimes.
That is the focus of my work and it has been worthwhile because
now in Syria, for example, activists are able to post
revolution-related videos and stories on social networking
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Aug 5 2011: I'm not sure what I think about it.      I certainly
don't think there is any politics-related content that should be
censored, as, in my point of view, in a very simplified idea,
governments should work for their people and not the other way
around.      What could probably be regarded as material that
could be censored is related to things that would maybe be
considered inappropriate globaly. But I'm not very sure there is
such kind of material. Even pedophil