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Global Voices Online: Introducing Threatened Voices
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Threatened Voices: An Interactive Map
| Good overview of threats against (online) free speech RT @onewmphoto: RT @globalvoicespol: do check http://threatened.globalvoicesonline.org 4 days ago |
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| RT @ClaireInParis: "Threatened Voices" (Voix en danger) nouveau site de Global Voices: http://threatened.globalvoicesonline.org/ #libert ... 4 days ago |
Introducing Threatened Voices
Global Voices Online —
Never before have so many people been threatened or imprisoned for what the words they write on the internet.
As activists and ordinary citizens have increasingly made use of the internet to express their opinions and connect with others, many governments have also increased surveillance, filtering, legal actions and harassment. The harshest consequence for many has been the politically motivated arrest of bloggers and online writers for their online and/or offline activities, in some tragic cases even leading to death. Online journalists ...
Threatened Voices: An Interactive Map
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... just launched a fascinating and useful new site: Threatened Voices . It’s an interactive map of bloggers under arrest and under threat around the world, with an accompanying timeline that makes it possible to track the phenomenon of arresting bloggers over the past several years. It’s an uncomfortable fact that, as ...
Azerbaijan: Activist blogger trial resumes, delays persist…
Global Voices Online —
... on threats made against Iranian dissident blogger Hossein Derakhshan, aka Hoder five years ago today. And in the same week that Threatened Voices, an ...
Egypt: Praise for Threatened Voices
Global Voices Online —
Egyptian Ibn Al Dunya, who writes at Fustat, praises a new Global Voices Online project - Threatened Voices, which tracks the suppression of online free speech.

