Amnesty are getting all new media at the moment, joining the NUJ in dissing Yahoo! for their cynical dobbing in of a Chinese dissident journalist, and now running a very clever campaign to disseminate bits of info that some authority somewhere has censored.

You got a blog? Marvellous. Bung a snippet of code onto it (see side bar on main page - Blogger won’t let the code in a post) and it will call in a piece of genuine taboo onto your very own pages, making you a mirror site in an vast international censor-busting web ring.

Not sure how much this will actually help anyone under the threat of censorship with extreme prejudice, but it is very neat, and definitely does help get the blog community feeling very grateful for freedoms that we enjoy.

http://irrepressible.info/addcontent

Most places, the worst that happens to bloggers is that they don’t get read. Unfortunately in places less familiar with free speech on such an accessible scale, telling it like you see it can make you a threat to an authority. Two Iranian bloggers, Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad are currently in jail for blogging. Visit the Committee To Protect Bloggers for more on this.