Yahoo to Sponsor Citizen Journalism

June 16th, 2006 10:20 AM

Amnesty International Launches Campaign to Fight Internet Censorship

May 31st, 2006 11:04 AM
Human rights group Amnesty International has launched a new campaign to fight Internet censorship. At its new website devoted to this cause, AI explained its position: “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…

China Censors CNN, Network Declines to Publicly Condemn

April 20th, 2006 1:26 PM
The authoritarian government of China is well-known for suppressing free speech and sometimes getting American media companies eager to cash in on a huge emerging market to help it do so. Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Time Warner, Fox, and others have soiled their reputations assisting the communist regime's crack downs on dissent.American media companies don't always back down. Sometimes, however,…