'Enemies of the internet' named

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'Enemies of the internet' named A list of 13 "enemies of the internet" has been released by human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while Nepal, Libya and the Maldives have all been removed.

The civil liberties pressure group has organised a 24-hour protest, inviting web users to vote for the worst offending countries.

Visitors to the RSF website are also invited to leave a voice message for Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang, expressing their views on the firm's involvement in China. The search engine has been criticised along with other companies for helping the Chinese authorities block access to some online material.

"We wanted to mobilise net users so that when we lobby certain countries we can say that the concerns are not just ours but those of thousands of internet users around the world," said a spokesman for RSF.

Many of those on the internet blacklist are countries that are regularly criticised by human rights groups, such as China and Burma.

Egypt is a new entrant and has been shortlisted for its attitude to bloggers rather than specific web censorship, said RSF.

THE 13 COUNTRIES BLACKLISTED

Belarus

Burma

China

Cuba

Egypt

Iran

North Korea

Saudi Arabia

Syria

Tunisia

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

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