And so, we now have a club of countries that are interested in making sure that censorship never stops in their specific regions.

SHANGHAI, China - A Russian and Chinese-led bloc of Asian states said Thursday it plans to set up an expert group to boost computer security and help guard against threats to their regimes from the Internet.

Suggesting the new group might tackle censorship, the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization said information communication technology could infringe on the “internal affairs of sovereign states,” bringing “serious harm to individual, social and national security.”

The group’s statement, issued following its annual summit in this Chinese city, identified no specific threats and didn’t specify what kinds of information communications technology it considered vulnerable…. Source: AP