Irrepressible Info: Undermining Censorship

Saturday, November 18. 2006

Amnesty International is doing some innovative work with a web plug-in tool to enlist web site and blog owners to help Amnesty in its work to promote political freedom of expression.

On it's site Irrepressible Info, Amnesty provides a set of code snippets that easily be inserted on a web site or blog. (Took this clumsy non-techie about 10 min to set it up - see the resulting icon and text on the lower right hand side of this page.)

The code generates a small window which shows a fragment of text from a web site or blog that has been censored by some country:

The examples of censored material used for Irrepressible.info have been drawn from websites that have been blocked in one of the following countries – China, Iran, Myanmar, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Syria and Vietnam, and are based on latest testing results available from each country.

By enlisting other web sites like this one to install the widget, Amnesty helps to undermine the efforts of government censors. (Yeah!)

Thanks to Kurt Voelker for the tip.

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Influence covers innovations in communication, Internet technology and strategy to generate influence on important public policy issues. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.