Many people are not allowed to enjoy this kind of freedom, their governments continually block websites and monitor their activity online. Usually to prevent their citizens finding out about atrocities or failings of that particular ruling party.
Amnesty International has set up a website called Irrepressible. They are encouraging users of the internet to speak out about censorship on the internet.
The internet has allowed normal users to create content that challenge the world around them. Citizens can create video footage, images and articles and quickly and easily get them to people who can make their voice heard to a wider public audience. This is part of how a democracy works, without it people can not remain informed. To many authoritarian governments the criticisms are unsettleing and they block their citizens from viewing this information, to maintain the status quo
Irrepressible.info have a small script you can add to your website that will display a quote that citizens of China, Iran, Myanmar, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Syria and Vietnam have been blocked from viewing. They have my support and I have added the script to my site.
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I went to see Taking Liberties the other day.
Its a brilliant film for all those interested in the human rights that we all posses and also believe that they are being erroded by the current UK government.
It presented me with a lot of information that I already knew and agreed with, but also new stuff. I may even go and see it a second time to take it all in.
One part of the film concerned ID cards. It included an obvious statement that "if no one uses ID cards then they become useless". I have always known this but now I'd like to say that I will not be getting and ID card and damning the concequences.
I encourage all those that care about their civil rights to see the film, it may not present much new information but its entertaining and at times quite sickening to see what is being done in our name.
Thank you.
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