World Day Against Cyber Censorship
Reporters Without Borders will celebrate World Day Against Cyber Censorship on 12 March. This event is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet that is unrestricted and accessible to all. It is also meant to draw attention to the fact that, by creating new spaces for exchanging ideas and information, the Internet is a force for freedom. However, more and more governments have realised this and are reacting by trying to control the Internet.
Reporters Without Borders will mark the occasion by issuing its latest list of “Enemies of the Internet.” This list points the finger at countries such as Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Tunisia that restrict online access and harass their netizens. A list of countries that have been placed “under surveillance” for displaying a disturbing attitude towards the Internet will also be released.
Reporters Without Borders will award the first “Netizen Prize,” with support from Google, at 7 p.m. on 11 March 2010, on the eve of World Day Against Cyber Censorship. The prize will be given to an Internet user, blogger or cyber-dissident who has made a notable contribution to the defence of online freedom of expression. The award ceremony will take place at the Paris headquarters of Google France.
Reporters Without Borders has designed a logo to symbolise the defence of online free expression. It represents a computer mouse freeing itself from its chains. The logo can be downloaded free of charge and is available in various colours. Do you want to show your support for World Day against Cyber-Censorship? Do you want to defend an Internet without restrictions and accessible to everyone? Don’t hesitate to download this logo and post it on your blog or website or add it to your email signature.
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Reporters Without Borders will award the first “Netizen Prize,” with support from Google... The award ceremony will take place at the Paris headquarters of Google France.
That's a terrible mistake. Google is still THE corporate internet censor in Thailand and elsewhere.
Meant no doubt to bring the Googleplex under the umbrella of RSF it will instead sully RSF and put Google's corporate fingerprints all over the award. I'm sure it means cash for RSF, and everyone needs cash... but not this kind.
RSF can get plenty of cash from the CIA and the US State Department, I'm sure. Google is now indistinguishable from the US State Department when it comes to corporate America's foreign policy.
They gave Barack Obama, Commander in Chief of aggressive wars in Iraq, Agahanistan, Pakistan, Yemen... the Nobel Peace Prize, so perhaps the Netizen Prize will go to Eric Schmidt's new best friend, Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander.
Almost like Stan G. Total
Almost like Stan G. Total nonsense. RSF, State, Google, and the CIA had nothing to do with that Nobel prize. But who's checking, I guess...?
Check. RSF, State, Google,
Check. RSF, State, Google, and the CIA had nothing to do with awarding Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.
The "they" I was referring to was the Norwegian Nobel committee who did and, tongue-in-cheek, I was implying that RSF and Google might now, emulating "them", give their "Netizen Prize" to the Director of the US NSA.
Google and the NSA are now formally working together. Google did attend a little "get together" sponsored by State in San Jose. Google-State language on "net freedom" is converging. Google has occupied the Iraqi antiquities museum, virtualizing its contents... with "permission" to do so no doubt issued by the "authorities" in that poor, US-occupied country, run from the largest US Embassy in the world operated by the State Department.
It's a slippery, slippery slope and Google is sliding down at record speed.
Why on earth have RSF allied themselves with the Googleplex?
It must be the money... ?