Be irrepressible! a campaign for global internet freedom 
Almost two weeks ago the complete blog of a friend and colleague from South America vanished. All the work, recipes, stories and photos are gone, along with her blog account. It is really scary, because "they" now say the blog didn't exist!
I invite you to read what Rachel Rawlins from Global Voices published this morning. This is an excerpt from the article. For the complete post visit Global Voices!
<<As more and more nations carve up the so-called global, borderless internet into separate spheres of control through filtering and censorship, often using technology supplied by large IT companies, Amnesty International has launched a new campaign - irrepressible.info to raise awareness of and protest against the infringements on the basic human right of freedom of speech.
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.
The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.
There are specific examples of some of the countries and companies in the spotlight:
The web is a great tool for sharing ideas and freedom of expression. However, efforts to try and control the Internet are growing. Internet repression is reported in countries like China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria. People are persecuted and imprisoned simply for criticising their government, calling for democracy and greater press freedom or exposing human rights abuses, online.
But Internet repression is not just about governments. IT companies have helped build the systems that enable surveillance and censorship to take place. Yahoo! have supplied email users’ private data to the Chinese authorities, helping to facilitate cases of wrongful imprisonment. Microsoft and Google have both complied with government demands to actively censor Chinese users of their services.>>
For the complete post visit Global Voices now!
THANK you Rachel
Have a wonderful day!
Melissa
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- by Chef Melissa
- May 30, 2006
- 8:45 am
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Comments
05.30.06 at 02:40 PM |
¿De dónde era el blog que desapareció? O por lo menos ¿dónde estaba hosteado para evitar ese host?
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05.30.06 at 08:11 PM |
Venezuela.
05.31.06 at 08:00 AM |
Gosh. I guess I better be careful what I say. I could disappear and never be heard from again. And what is worse, probably no one would notice! :(
05.31.06 at 08:06 AM |
This brings up a good point, how many of you have your blog’s files backed up somewhere else? I better start doing that
M
05.31.06 at 09:16 AM |
Hmm.. I thought about back ups too. I better get on to that business as well before I’m caught short.
05.31.06 at 07:27 PM |
This is so scary! Thank you for bringing it to light and spreading the word! I don’t have anything backed up anywhere and I’m not even sure I know how - I guess I could just put it in text files, but all of my pictures would be gone.
You’re always such a good source of information, Melissa - thank you!
06.01.06 at 03:05 PM |
Ok…so I have tobe afraid, very affraid that the…linda fiscal..thinks that maybee Im an sexually abussed underaged teenager also ???....dont this ppl have buisness of their own .. ?.... :s
sorry bout ure friend.
Sux…
06.01.06 at 03:10 PM |
Ok…so I have tobe afraid, very affraid that the…linda fiscal..thinks that maybee Im an sexually abussed underaged teenager also ???....dont this ppl have buisness of their own .. ?.... :s
sorry bout ure friend.
Sux…
06.01.06 at 09:08 PM |
Your site is really beautiful,good job! ur site is very educative
06.04.06 at 02:02 PM |
goodness. I am glad that you wrote about this. I have been hearing about this issue for a while now, and it is wonderful that you can get the word out to so many people.
06.05.06 at 09:18 PM |
All the news of censorship and illegal monitoring on the internet is very troubling. Thanks for the link. I hope your friend and her blog show back up! Great new photo, by the way.
06.06.06 at 01:51 PM |
I’m very sad her blog disapeared. But she will be back again with a greater one. Her blog is a food blog, not a political one.
As a venezuelan, I still hope it dissapeared because of diferent reasons, not political ones.
Can you imagine cuban blogs? Please do so… I would love to see what they really think.
06.06.06 at 01:52 PM |
GRACIAS Melissa, por tu angustia e interés por lo que pasa en nuestro país.
06.10.06 at 10:26 AM |
Maria Luisa, gracias por visitarnos! ya sabes que cuentan conmigo amiga…
Ahhh….por cierto, para los que me preguntaron, aqui esta el nuevo blog de la Chef Ines Peña: http://www.apuntesdecocina.com/
Que tengan un buen fin de semana
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