Online voting against free speech restriction

18/11/2006

“Journalists without borders” international organization has organized a program against free speech restriction. The mentioned program targets the following countries: Cuba, China, Columbia, Iran, Tunis, Russia and USA. The mentioned action entitled to a “24-hour online demo against Internet censorship” and started on November 7. The web page of the mentioned organization (www.rsf.org) has a map of the countries where they say free speech is restricted, included in electronic sources. The mentioned organization is going to compile the information they have received within 24 hours and send it to one of the co-chairmen of Yahoo concern, Jerry Yang. According to the reporters, the organization was the first one in the world that allowed censuring its modules by cooperating with the Chinese government. Besides Yahoo, the black list of “Journalists without borders” contains the names of Microsoft and Google as well.