Internet Freedom

[DJ]

About this campaign

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.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right. It is one of the most precious of all rights. We should fight to protect it.

For more information and to read and sign the pledge visit http://irrepressible.info/pledge.

A campaign by Amnesty International.

 

[Joe]

500 Internal error

Server got itself in trouble

hmm? lol

Joe

 

[commandercody]

What would Karl marx have to say about this....

Karl: ARRRRRGGGGG
Freddie Engels: Stop them, stop them all.
arnold ruge:The server must go.

 

[Fewski]

Seems to be up now...

I highly doubt that they internet will ever be controlled, atleast not in most of ours lifetime. There are to many different countries that are on the internet to just have a a group control it.

But hey, they also never thought there would be robots - but there are.

 

[Grey_OwL]

Seems to be up now...

I highly doubt that they internet will ever be controlled, atleast not in most of ours lifetime. There are to many different countries that are on the internet to just have a a group control it.

But hey, they also never thought there would be robots - but there are.

You're right. There can never be any clear answer for that. The future of internet is basically filled with complex uncertainties.

 

[trampolinebear]

looks cool,
I signed the pledge, thanks for the info

 

[DJ]

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