Amnesty International Launches Campaign to End Internet Censorship

A Reuters newswire article by Paul Majendie, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Amnesty International marked its 45th anniversary on Sunday by launching a global campaign to stamp out state censorship of the Internet.

The human rights pressure group called on Web users to sign a pledge calling on governments to stop censoring sites and urging technology corporations not to collude with them.

Arguing that online censorship is a new threat to freedom, Amnesty claimed to have uncovered Internet repression in areas around the world from China and Tunisia to Vietnam, Iran, Israel and the Maldives.

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