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Amnesty International has launched a campaign to protect free speech on the Internet, and it is taking aim at technology companies as well as governments.
The group set up a Web site called Irrepressible.info, which says governments are increasingly punishing people for criticizing their governments, promoting freedom and exposing human rights violations. The Observer newspaper and art company Soda Creative are also behind the effort.
The site names search engine and portal companies, email and discussion hosts, and software companies it says help governments identify dissidents for punishment. Companies like Yahoo have urged the federal government to press foreign governments on issues regarding free speech.
Irrepressible.info encourages people to petition those governments for more freedom and copy excerpts that have been censored. The site urges people to paste the excerpts as "badges" into their emails and on their Web sites so the information is widely distributed regardless of, and partly because of, censorship attempts.
