This year’s Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize was awarded to Syrian citizen journalists and activists. The Media Center of the Local Coordination Committees brings together groups of citizen journalists to collect and disseminate, in real time, information and images of Syria’s uprising.
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Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (on March 12, 2012) is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions that is accessible to all.
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Iran’s plans to introduce a domestic computer network that would be compatible with Islamic principles and work independently from the World Wide Web are shrouded in secrecy. RFE/RL has compiled this quick guide to the possible introduction of a national Internet in Iran and the challenges it may face.
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Several Internet companies, including the Indian subsidiaries of Google and Facebook, announced on 6 February that they had complied with Indian court directives to remove from their sites content deemed objectionable.
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Larry Siems, Director of the PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write program, talked to Sampsonia Way about the current state of affairs in China, the mainstream media’s coverage, and the ways our readers can support freedom of expression in China.
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Index on Censorship has published the shortlist for the Freedom of Expression Awards 2011. The awards honor those who, often at great personal risk, give voice to issues and stories from around the globe that may otherwise have passed unnoticed.
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Index on Censorship has published the shortlist for the Freedom of Expression Awards 2011. The awards honor those who, often at great personal risk, give voice to issues and stories from around the globe that may otherwise have passed unnoticed.
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