Tuesday, 12 March is a “World Day Against Cyber Censorship”, that was first observed on March 12 2008 by Reporters Without Borders, as they have a many convincing reasons:
World Day Against Cyber Censorship is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all. Never have so many countries been affected by some form of online censorship, whether arrests or harassment by Netizens, online surveillance, website blocking or the adoption of repressive Internet laws. Netizens are being targeted by government reprisals. Around 120 of them are currently detained for expressing their views freely online. World Day Against Cyber Censorship pays tribute to them and their fight for Internet freedom.
Netizen Prize:
- In 2010, the first annual Netizen Prize, sponsored by Google, was awarded to the Iranian women’s rights activists of the Change for Equality website.
- In 2011 Netizen Prize was awarded to the Tunisian group blogging site Nawaat.org for their coverage of the Tunisian protests.
- In 2012 Netizen Prize was awarded to Syrian citizen journalists and activists. The media center of the organization known as Local Coordination Committees collects and disseminates reports, images, and information about the ongoing Syrian Upraising.
So, you can go to the website which had been lunched especially for that initiative, then you could show your support by downloading the logo - which is available in many languages – and posting it to your profile or your blog, also you could obtain more information about the initiative and the organization – if you don’t know about them – you could really show your support against the internet censorship by different ways.
#ضد_الرقابة
The website created a map and 2 lists which they called “Enemies of Internet” and “Countries under surveillance” with the following data:
Enemies of Internet: (Bahrain – Belarus – Burma – China – Cuba -Iran – North Korea – Saudi arabia – Syria – Turkmenistan – Uzbekistan – Vietnam).
Countries under surveillance: (Australia – Egypt – Eritrea – France – India – Kazakhstan – Malaysia – Russia – South Korea – Sri Lanka – Thailand – Tunisia – Turkey – United Arab Emirates).
CensorShip-Map
So far, as Egypt is one of countries under surveillance, we have 2 events to participate and stand against internet censorship by spreading awareness, blogging, tweeting, writing articles, and using all social networking tools and online communities to fight it, you could join the Arabic events here by Madany Documentation
And here by مؤسسة حرية الفكر والتعبير – (AFTE),
Finally you could tweet in the Arabic HashTag #ضد_الرقابة
Do you have any other ideas to show your support? Share it with us.
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