Although it is meaningless to speak of a French or Armenian portion of Cyberspace, because the physical borders dividing French or Armenian territory from their neighbors cannot generally be mapped onto the flow of information in Cyberspace, the Net has other kinds of internal borders delineating many distinct internal locations that slow or block the flow of information.
But if this is indeed an attempt by the authorities to block the flow of information into and out of the country, then it doesn't appear to be working.
Consequently, several bottlenecks were induced, blocking the flow of information from the health promoters, through the teachers and students, to the parents.
If, however, Facebook will become "the" gateway to Internet access for millions of people, governments will only need to to control a single centralized checkpoint to block or limit the flow of information.
Instead, with Swartz' suicide, it feels more like the exclamation point on an administration whose commitment to maintaining secrecy, blocking transparency, limiting the flow of information and squelching dissent has been both unexpected and rather shocking.
Patenting, restricting, and blocking access to software constrains the flow of information and limits progress of science and useful arts – the very foundation of copyright law in the first place.
Mr. Jaafari, as representative of a government that blocks independent reporting and tightly controls the flow of information to its citizens through state-run news channels, insisted to Mr. Frei and the other reporters in New York that the truth about what happened in Houla could only be reliably determined by the government officials appointed by the president to discover it.
Government security officers tried to stanch the flow of information by blocking individual Twitterers, while opposition supporters urged #IranElection followers to change their profile settings to the Tehrān time zone in an attempt to overwhelm government filters.
He also told reporters that technology designed to block mobile phone use by inmates hampered the flow of information about what was happening.
Postdoc Yoram Gutfreund wondered if the flow of information was somehow blocked in the anesthetized owls on which the experiments were done.
Governments trying to control the flow of information have found it difficult to block people from voicing their concerns or setting up meetings through the sites.
