Saturday, July 23, 2005
RED HERRING | Blogging for Free Speech
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A new bloggers guide and support for "cyberdissidents" from Reporters with Borders (Reporters sans Frontieres) an international group is being prepared.
The group notes U.S. companies are creating products that allow governments to censor the Internet. Consider what you buy. Can you go open source? RED HERRING | Blogging for Free Speech: "'A Microsoft blog tool in Chinese will censor the word 'democracy' and suggest another word for 'human rights,'' Mr. Pain said. 'We have to respect certain ethical principles, but just obeying Chinese laws is not an answer.'"
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Hi Barb, I think the name is Reporters WithOUT Borders, hehe.
And the censorship info was pretty scary. Who can watch the corporations that team up with undemocratic governments to play down the freedom of speach?
Maybe us as bloggers, perhaps?
Yes, I did mean without borders. I think it was a Freudian slip because reporters of all the pressure to shut in and shut up reporters.
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