Irrepressible
May 30, 2006 | Filed Under Blogging, Media, Politics, Rant
Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.
The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.
Amnesty International, with the support of The Observer, is launching a campaign to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress.
Find out more about this campaign
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Crikey, Amnesty International.. The ‘Big Guns’ of freedom of speech, about bloddy time too.
Also, as soon as I saw ‘Irrepressable’.. All that came to mind was…
Poo, Im looking like a right tool now, failed in my HTML attempt..
Was attemptnig to link to the “Monkey” site with a pic of ‘The irrepressable spirit of Monkey!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)
Ah well….
Interesting to see that they don’t seem quite so bothered about the lack of free speech in the West. Although having said that, Amnesty don’t believe in free speech anyway.
Oh, and since all the fragments come from the host fragments.irrepressible.info, it will be trivial to block them in the countries they’re targetting. Still, it’s a start! Loads of sites are blocked here in Thailand…
There’s free speech, then there’s free speech…
…under some peoples definition then a certain rally at nurenburg was acceptible in terms of freedom, if not in content.
damn. godwin’s law rears its head…
lol, nicely done
http://www.monkeyheaven.com/monkey.mid
…i’ve been wanting to do a version of this for years, here is my current take (wip)
http://www.jimbarter.co.uk/mpfree/monkey.mp3
(yeah - too much reverb, too much tom… i know…)