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Introducing Threatened Voices
Global Voices Online — ... Today, Global Voices Advocacy is launching a new website called Threatened Voices to help track suppression of free speech online. It features a world map and an interactive timeline that help visualize the story of threats and arrests against bloggers worldwide, and it is a central platform to gather information from the most dedicated organisations and activists, including Committee to Protect Bloggers, The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Reporters without Borders, Human Rights Watch, CyberLaw Blog, Amnesty ...

Threatened Voices: An Interactive Map
Worldchanging: Bright Green — Picture-1-450x444.jpg My friend and colleage Sami Ben Gharbia 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 blogs become a more influential public space , the technique of arresting bloggers to silence online speech becomes increasingly common. The Threatened Voices map complements another map that Sami ...