Chinese Bloggers,we feel your pain.

and all of those countries with censored acces to the net.

I’ve always knew there was some censorship on the internet, i even knew of some extreme cases in which some governments messed around and made disappear people just for blogging. an activity that might seem so natural and for most of us even a right.

It wants until gabriel kent moved to shanghai that i began to understand how serious and contemporary this problem is. With random sites disappearing and being banned, in the name of common welfare.

Over the last half-year, governments in China, Tunisia, Syria, Turkey, Burma, Thailand and Morocco have all cut off access to video-sharing websites.

But now we clearly can see its more about private interests, money and power than anything else. I bet if you ask gabriel, he has a very strong argument.

For most of the common mortals, there is little that we alone can do. But there are several thing we can do to contribute from protests to awareness.

Find some activists near you, or your community and there should be someway you can help.

Today i found a very practical and useful way to give a bit to the cause.

check out this posts on global voices,

Global Voices Advocacy:

seeks to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists throughout the developing world that is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online. The aim of this network is to raise the awareness of online freedom of speech issues and to share tools and tactics with activists and bloggers facing similar situations in different parts of the globe.The network is meant not only to provide support to its members, but also to produce educational guides about anonymous blogging, anti-censorship campaigns, and online organizing. By collaborating with software developers, activists, and bloggers, the network hopes to design new and more appropriate tools to protect our rights on the Internet.

wanna play ?

403 Checker

“403 Checker” has been developed by the Tunisian blogger and activist Astrubal. “403 Access Denied Checker” is not a circumvention tool; it has been designed to help activists in nations where censorship takes place to test local blockages.

“403 Checker” aims to make it easy for any one to quickly check a huge number of urls and share the result with the public. It’s main gaol isn’t to help “experts”, but to help getting feedback from no experts, those who are living under repressive regimes.

This is an early alpha release, and many things still to be done to make it more user friendly.

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