Undermine censorship

It gladdens me to see that Irrepressible.info, an Amnesty International campaign “to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress”, includes a supply-side anti-censorship component:

If you have a website or blog, help us spread the word and undermine unwarranted censorship by publishing censored material from our database directly onto your site.

The more people take part the more we show that freedom of expression cannot be repressed.

Unfortunately the mechanism offered, a javascript include, only requires a censor to block a single site (fragments.irrepressible.info) to prevent censored browsers from seeing the censored material. Worthy idea anyhow, not least because awareness of censored material is raised in non-censored areas, which will result in increased diffusion of censored ideas through human networks.

Via Tom Palmer.

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