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Stop Internet Repression

Simon Ware, West Midlands Amnesty International Media Officer | 29.05.2006 15:59 | Globalisation | Technology | Birmingham

Amnesty International celebrates its 45th anniversary this week, and to mark this the West Midlands Amnesty International is asking people to support our new campaign, irrepressible.info. It’s an exciting new campaign which challenges a new threat to freedom - repression on the internet.

Around the world, Internet cafés are shut down, computers seized, chat rooms monitored, and blogs deleted. Websites are blocked or heavily censored, search engines are restricted and foreign news prohibited.

irrepressible.info highlights internet censorship and the cases of people imprisoned just for what they have written in emails or on websites. It also highlights the role of companies who have helped countries like China censor the web.

We’re asking people in the West Midlands to go to www.irrepressible.info and sign our Pledge for internet freedom; send our e-postcard to the Chinese authorities calling for the release of Shi Tao – doing 10 years hard labour for sending an email – and show their support by putting our badge on their website or email.

The internet has become a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. A lot of has changed in 45 years – but some governments are still repressing their citizens, and Amnesty is still standing up against them.

Simon Ware, West Midlands Amnesty International Media Officer
- e-mail: media@wmai.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.wmai.org.uk


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  1. Example of Google colluding with internet repression — don't let google own you!
  2. Alternative to Google: Scroogle Scraper — google doesn't own me

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