Fwd: RWB's WeFightCensorship.org

[Rebecca MacKinnon]

FYI, I only just caught up to the email below. Of strong interest to our community. 

Cheers,

Rebecca

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From: Guerric Poncet <gue...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Subject: RWB's WeFightCensorship.org
To: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca....@gmail.com>


Dear Mrs MacKinnon,

we have been in contact about Internet Censorship, I'm a french journalist working for Le Point. I just wanted to give the info below to you. I have written an article in french, with an interview of Lucie Morillon, head of the new media office at RWB :
http://www.lepoint.fr/chroniqueurs-du-point/guerric-poncet/rsf-veut-publier-des-documents-censures-24-07-2012-1488767_506.php

Best regards,
Guerric Poncet

Reporters Without Borders plans to launch an anti-censorship website in October. 

The site, wefightcensorship.org, will be the showcase of all the anti-censorship activities that Reporters Without Borders undertakes as part of its mission to defend freedom of information.

 

It will be a platform for posting censored or banned content that that can be easily mirrored on other sites in order to make censorship obsolete. Using an extremely secure digital “safe,” Internet users will be able to send censored or banned content to Reporters Without Borders in a completely anonymous fashion.

 

Reporters Without Borders will carefully verify the material it receives before posting the selected content, including documents, articles, photos and videos, and it will put this content into context so that the public can appreciate its news value. The site is intended to be a “virtual shelter,” a refuge for all those still being hounded by censors.

 

The site will also offer practical tools, advice and technical resources that will help netizens to learn how to circumvent censorship, secure their communications and preserve their online anonymity.

 

You can register now on wefightcensorship.org in order to have access to a beta version of the site before the official launch.

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Rebecca MacKinnon
Author, Consent of the Networked
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation

Co-founder, Global Voices

Twitter: @rmack

Office: +1-202-596-3343

[Solana Larsen]

Interesting idea.

I gave it a link on GV http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/10/new-digital-safe-haven-from-censors/

Reminds me a little of the idea for the virtual museum for censorship in Lebanon Afef just wrote about.

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/08/lebanon-a-virtual-museum-for-censorship/

Solana

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