It’s Online Free Expression Day, presented by Reporters Without Borders. (And, in a cowardly move, not supported by UNESCO.)
Stop by their website and take part in the (totally awesome looking) cyber-demonstration. sd&if is headed over there right now. Look for us throwing out our support for imprisoned independent librarians in Cuba (you know, doing what the ALA doesn’t have the balls to do).
Then we’re gonna go see if Sarah Lacy wants to talk to us about it. We’ll talk back, Sarah! We promise!
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Bless all the principled reporters (you know who you are!) Without your diligence we would not have the means to keep ourselves as safe and free as possible. There is another attack on on internet free speech, which has done so much to extend the reporters reach.
SOTT.net, an internet new site based in France, is being sued for 4.47 MILLION dollars by one Eric Pepin, a “master teacher” of the Higher Balance Institute in Oregon. Why? For republishing newspaper articles regarding accusations of sexual abuse by Pepin in connection with his establishment, and allowing a discussion of those articles to go forward on the SOTT forum. If successful, it will have a profoundly negative effect on the sharing of information on the web. Check out the whole story:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3bm8qh
Comment by Huron 14 March 08 @ 10:05 pm