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Amnesty International vs. Internet Censorship

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Amnesty International has a new online campaign against governments which censor websites, monitor online communications, and persecute citizens who express dissent in blogs, emails, or chat-rooms. The website, Irrepressible.info contains a web-based petition (to be presented at a UN conference in November 2006) and also a downloadable web gadget which displays random excerpts of censored material on your own website."

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  1. Useless by umbrellasd · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh, yes. Let's just forward that petition straight to China.

    UN: Please don't censor your people, China.
    China: We have nuclear weapons, stupid.
    UN: Oh, damn.
    UN: Hey, Iran. Please don't censor your...
    Iran: Uranium, uranium, uranium. Stick it up uranium, UN.

    1. Re:Useless by Idiomatick · · Score: 2, Funny

      China is going to bomb the internet? Because i'm sure that'd work REAAAL well.

  2. Re:official? by suv4x4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've inspected the web gadget, it seems useless. To see the quotes try this:

    fragments.irrepressible.info/data/current/*-180.ht ml

    where "*" is from 0 to 70.

    It includes some quotes, but they are just few words, taken out of context, no author or place of origin is given, basically makes no sense. Some of them are Arabic as well.

    Let's hope it's not some scam, otherwise you can expect those quotes to turn into cheap C1aL1s offers and affordable mortgage deals when they gain some mass ;)

  3. Hey ;) by Headcase88 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I found a good site on Amnesty International's campaign. Check it out here.

    --
    "When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
  4. Re:Ok, then... by mrogers · · Score: 2, Funny

    The National Watcher-Watching Agency (and its regulatory body, the National National Watcher-Watching Agency-Watching Committee).

  5. How about porn? by houghi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will they fight governements that make it their job to make it difficult to put porn online?

    --
    Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
  6. Cannot use their javascript in Blogger by rduke15 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like you cannot use their javascript code in Blogger:

    Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not allowed:

    I guess the forbidden javascript will also be cut out of this Blogger error message quote.

    Talk about censorship... :-)

    But in fact, if you click the check box to ignore HTML errors, it posts alright.