Last Friday at the WSIS PrepCom-3 meeting in Geneva, Privacy International and the GreenNet Educational Fund released Silenced: An International Report on Censorship and Control of the Internet. Covering four dozen countries and 6 regions, it makes distressing reading. From the web-page where the report can be downloaded: "The September 11, 2001 attacks have given numerous governments the opportunity to promulgate restrictive policies that their citizens had previously opposed. There has been an acceleration of legal authority for additional snooping of all kinds, particularly involving the Internet, from increased email monitoring to the retention of Web logs and communications data. Simultaneously, governments have become more secretive about their own activities, reducing information that was previously available and refusing to adhere to policies on freedom of information... A wide variety of methods are used to restrict and/or regulate Internet access. These include: applying laws and licenses, content filtering, tapping and surveillance, pricing and taxation policies, telecommunication markets manipulation, hardware and software manipulation and self censorship..."