Threatened Voices Launches Today

Threatened Voices is a new website designed to track the suppression of free speech on the internet. According to the site, online writers and bloggers currently represent 45% of all media workers in prison worldwide. Launched by the non-profit Global Voices, the focus of the site is a mapping project that catalogs bloggers and online journalists who have been threatened, arrested, killed or disappeared because of what they’ve written online. The database stretches back to the year 2000, and to keep in current they’re asking for the online community to submit new information about bloggers in danger.

In danger. Disappeared. Killed. Jeebus! This one time we got a really angry letter for a post we wrote calling Liz Smith a twat. Doesn’t seem like such a big deal anymore.

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