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Amnesty International takes on repression via Internet

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People being repressed on the internet via the form of censhorship is coming under fire by Amnesty International. It’s a great goal, but you have to wonder about implementation. The usual suspects are under fire:

Arguing that online censorship is a new threat to freedom, Amnesty claimed to have uncovered Internet repression in areas around the world from China and Tunisia to Vietnam, Iran, Israel and the Maldives.

The basic idea is to get people to sign petitions online which will pressure these countries into reducing the amount of censorship they’ll do. This is like handing a bully a petition that says “please don’t take our lunch money anymore”. They can’t influence the countries themselves, but they may be able to influence US companies which are helping with the censorship from a technical standpoint.

Both Google and Yahoo have signed agreements with the Chinese government saying that they’ll censor info, and both have come under fire by humans rights groups for it.

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