When we talk about Freedom To Read Week here in Canada, it’s easy to think only about books that have been banned.
However, sadly, it’s not just books—in Egypt, blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman has just been sentenced to four years in prison because of what he wrote in his blog.
So the Internet is not just one big happy playground, and Amnesty International has started an initiative called Irrepresible Info that allows bloggers and owners of websites to fight back.
It’s easy—you go to the site, register, and are given a bit of coding that you put in your blog template. Then, every time you reload the page, a new bit of censored material loads. Check it out in my left sidebar.
You can also sign up for the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Blue Ribbon Campaign For Internet Free Speech.
Money is always useful, of course, but another thing you can do is simplay display the blue ribbon logo in support of freedom of expression. Check out the left sidebar for this as well.
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