I’ve always like Amnesty International Reports. Even more so, I like AI action campaigns that have a little bite to them. AI’s new free speech campaign is a great case in point. A lot of people talk about the right to free speech. That’s fine and well. Better would be to simply say what it is that’s on your mind, whether it’s banned or not, and help others do likewise.

Amnesty International has a spiffy new tool to fight internet censorship. AI is asking bloggers to post snippets from websites that have been banned in various countries around the globe.

As far as shortcomings go, I’d like to know more about the banned pieces. I’d like the option to read them or even post them in their entirety instead of anonymous snippets. Most of them are in other languages, and having a translation of them would be (aside from a mammoth task) educational, but I could also see posting them in full as well on a site that has the latest censorware-beating applications running. After all, the point could be more than to just get the word out to the outside world, where these things aren’t banned. It could be to get these messages transmitted back into the area where they aren’t allowed.

Still, it makes a decent point. I’m going add these to all the websites keep, work on, or am administrator of. Here’s one for this blog:

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