Mel Herdon on Sun, 28 May 2006 18:50:28 +0200 (CEST) |
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Today Amnesty International and The Observer newspaper launches a campaign on internet repression... Their featured case for taking action, is Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, who was sentenced to 10 years' hard labour for using the internet to tell people newspapers were being restricted in their coverage of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests. Yahoo! gave information to the authorities that was used in evidence for his conviction. There is an action on Yahoo! in the campaign, and further actions to be included periodically over the duration of the campaign. Those interested who have blogs and sites can also publicise the campaign using a neat little 'fragment' of suppressed information - a great way to undermine the very nature of censorship by spreading the content of censored sites innocuously across the globe. For those who just want to register their voice, there's the usual pledge... campaign site http:www.irrepressible.info articles in The Observer: http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,,1784725,00.html yours Mel # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net