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sab
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 Posted - 24 Jul 2006 : 12:21:49
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Amnesty International launches global campaign against internet repression
Following the success of the launch of its internet freedom campaign in the UK, Amnesty International is today going global with irrepressible.info. The campaign aims to claim back the web as a force for change in the face of an increasing willingness on the part of technology companies to aid censorship and repression.
From Iran to the Maldives and Cuba to Vietnam, governments are both cracking down on those who use the internet to communicate their views and denying their citizens access to its wealth of information. Web users are locked up, internet cafes are shut down, chat rooms are policed and blogs deleted. Websites are blocked, foreign news banned, and search engines filter out sensitive results.
"The internet can be a great tool for the promotion of human rights -- activists can tell the world about abuses in their country at the click of a mouse. People have unprecendented access to information from the widest range of sources," said Amnesty International.
"But the internet's potential for change is being undermined -- by governments unwilling to tolerate this free media outlet, and by companies willing to help them repress free speech."Sun Microsystems, Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, Yahoo! and Google are among those companies implicated in helping governments censor the internet or track down individual users. In 2004, Microsoft released information about nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to the Israeli authorities without his knowledge or consent. The data was initially used to prosecute Vanunu for having contact with foreign media.
"We are calling on internet users across the world to go to http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maaeZVUabr35cck59ETb/ and sign a pledge calling on all governments and companies to respect internet freedom," said Amnesty International. "Internet companies often claim to be ethically responsible -- these pledges will highlight how their cooperation in repression risks making them complicit in human rights abuses and damages their credibility."
The online pledges will be collected and presented to a key UN meeting on the future of the internet in November 2006.To coincide with the launch of the international campaign, Amnesty International is releasing a report about the role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google in internet repression in China. The apparatus of internet repression is considered to be more advanced in China than in any other country and companies are particularly willing to cooperate with the Chinese government.
Sign our pledge for online freedom of information and expression:
http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maaeZVUabr35dck59ETb/
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jambo
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Posted - 24 Jul 2006 : 15:49:56
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sab, how are you
i am going to look at this site, does it include africa countries |
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sab
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Posted - 24 Jul 2006 : 16:40:07
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Greetings – I have not had opportunity to go into the sites yet. Just copied it from my e mail via AI.
But about a month ago I read about (another) legislation in South Africa & Zimbabwe that would allow governments to monitor email and telephone communications. In South Africa, the Regulations of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication – related Information Bill requires mobile phone operators to monitor and intercept, and to keep detailed information of all their clients, including phones and SIM cards. Companies could face fines of R100, 000 a day for non-compliance.
Customers who sold or gave away their cell phones or SIM cards could be imprisoned for up to twelve months for failing to obtain and relay the recipients personal information to a service provider.
Mobile phone operators will be required to cut the services of clients using their networks but whose information they failed to obtain within a twelve-month grace period.
Once applied these laws usually travel don’t they? Maybe one of these sites covers the above also.
Info from The Voice..
Regards,
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