Amnesty International vs. Internet Censorship
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 27 May 2006
Amnesty International has a new online campaign against governments which censor websites, monitor online communications, and persecute citizens who express dissent in blogs, emails, or chat-rooms. The website, Irrepressible.info contains a web-based petition (to be presented at a UN conference in November 2006) and also a downloadable web gadget which displays random excerpts of censored material on your own website.
So, they have an online campaign against all governments in the world? Of course, the first country most people think of is China. Their censoring of democratic influences has been covered a lot lately. Then there are countries in the Middle East who block access to porn. Finally there's the rest of the world who blocks nazi and pedophile websites. Now what does AI want? A truly uncensored Internet, or a "mostly free network which only blocks sites we civilized countries deem unacceptable"?