The film has incited riots all over the Arab world.
(Credit: Russia Today/YouTube; screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
The Web has made it hard to censor things.
Principally because it is both so open and so Byzantine that there are simply so many things out there for a budding censor to sink his opprobrium into.
I can remember when I lived in Singapore and my NFL VHS's -- mailed to me from Switzerland -- were pored over by men and women with extremely sharp eyes and ears that became highly attuned to the sound of John Madden saying "Boom!"
So imagine how much hard work the world's online censors are having to do.
Egypt has reportedly come up with an idea to solve this problem. It comes from our most modern thoughts and times. It is called crowdsourcing.
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