Threatened Voices Charts Bloggers Under Attack Around The World

Blogging from a fancy office in Soho, it is easy to forget how dangerous it can be for bloggers around the world to do their work. But just last month, a HuffPost blogger in Cuba, Yoani Sanchez, was refused permission to travel to the US where she was to be awarded a prize by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. In other cases, bloggers face harassment and even imprisonment for calling attention to government corruption and abuses.

Earlier this year, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that Burma is the worst place in the world to be a blogger. The article went on to say:

"Bloggers are at the vanguard of the information revolution and their numbers are expanding rapidly," said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. "But governments are quickly learning how to turn technology against bloggers by censoring and filtering the Internet, restricting online access and mining personal data. When all else fails, the authorities simply jail a few bloggers to intimidate the rest of the online community into silence or self-censorship."

Now, Global Voices, a global community of bloggers, has launched a project to try and keep track of the the censorship and harassment bloggers can be subjected to. Titled Threatened Voices, the project shows on a map the disturbingly high numbers of bloggers arrested or imprisoned in different countries.

Check it out and if you know of anything not included, please contribute.

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Comments

[NYkid]

Why there is no mention about the millions of blogs censored by google?

[geekalicious1]

Interesting article in light of the fact the HP Islamic Coalition has effectually had anyone banned/silenced that is agnostic/atheist.

The future of Freedom of Speech In America
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[MountPanic]

I was fired from a job for blogging about my workplace experiences. Doesn't that count? ;)

[loki]

Not if your work contract states you cant expose anything that happens during your employment to the media or other public sources. Which many companies are putting in the work place rules and employment rules now. Especially larger companies who are paranoid about their public image.
Usually with good reasons to be worried about many activities being made public. But I wonder if
censoring your posters when you pretend to be about free speech, like Hufpo does would be an attack on free speech itself?

[KIVPossum]

You have no right to free speach on someone else's blog, so leave HP out.

[MountPanic]

It did not. I didn't even have a contract. I always honor my NDAs when employed in more professional positions. Nor was I giving away any professional information, unless you count their strategy of hiring unhinged alcoholics who refuse to work and threaten others a keen corporate strategy. It was purely about the ego of the business owner. I can't actually blame him, because I already knew the risk of swimming with sharks.

[nexxtep54]

You think this is bad ? wait until Net neutrality fails and liberal servers are choked off like a clogged pipe.

[loki]

even if net neutrality fails it will still happen with the so called "internet 2" coming soon. Taking bandwidth away from what we now use for a much more costly system. And of course just like the current internet that was build on tax payer money, Internet 2 is bought an paid for by us too, and we will have to give money to some ivy greed capitalistic company to use something we already paid for.
happens all the time now anyway. with Medications and technologies that taxpayer funding pays for the research, and corporation get for free and charge us an arm and a leg for.

[grind88]

Fight the power

[blueskybigstar]

No mention of this site?

[nexxtep54]

2nd line of the article.

[lightningbolt]

South America is the freest continent on Earth.

[MadeandBakedintheUSA]

Where do you get your information from?

The number 1 country for FREE PRESS is no where near S America!

[lightningbolt]

I just looked at the map.

[lightningbolt]

Only one blogger was under attack in all of South America.

[KIVPossum]

One blogger in all of S.A., two in the US.