Fighting for freedom of the internet?
Amnesty International, with the support of the Observer newspaper in the UK, has launched a new . The group says that freedom of expression online now is a human right.
Countries around the world control the internet from and its thousands of internet police to western countries that monitor the or terrorist communications. Do you believe 'net freedom is a human right? How do we balance freedoms with responsibilities?
Amnesty says on its new site Irrepresible.info:
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.
You can go here and . The Open Net Initiative has a map of . Amnesty wants to put pressure not only on governments but also corporations that help support internet censorship. Amnesty highlights , a Chinese journalist serving 10 years for sending an e-mail from his Yahoo! e-mail account.
It reminds me. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about the case of , an Egyptian blogger and activist still under detention for to support activist judges. I just got this update in my inbox this morning. Alaa continues . (Thanks for the link.) His 15-day detention has been extended.
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