Slashdot Mirror
Amnesty International vs. Internet Censorship
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."
There is a subtle form/efforts of censorship here in these Slashdot discussion forums. How? By the scoring of comments made. Yes it's subtle but likely does dissuade some readers from reading a post that is scored zero.
It's obvious that if anyone challenges the "status quo" here - there is an instant challenge by one or more readers - or by negatively branding a comment with a zero score. At the same time those who give zero scores do not have to prove the "status quo" is true/valid and so on - which of course is a double standard.
The above applies in spades to any subject to do with so-called "religion", so-called "HIV=AIDS", so-called "Global Warming Caused By People" or UNUSABLE web pages/sites that are "glorified marginally animated magazine pages"