Reporters sans frontières provide shelter for disgraced bloggers
Reporters sans frontières (RSF), a Paris-based human rights organization Reporters Without Borders, launched the Refuge from Censorship project last Thursday to protect bloggers around the world from harassment.
The RSF group provides part of its Paris office for foreign journalists and bloggers, from where they can continue their activities through a secure Internet channel, disguising their online identity.
This project will also provide carefully selected foreign bloggers with free access to anonymous and secured Internet access and proxies in order to make it difficult for repressive administrations to prosecute bloggers for their activities.
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“This will allow them [bloggers] to connect securely to the Internet and continue their blogging activities,” said the head of RSF, Jean-François Zhuliard, during the launch of “virtual shelter”.
He admitted that persistent administrations can find ways to bypass the masked Internet addresses, but nevertheless, the project can still help the harassed bloggers avoid arrest, which is happening now more and more often.
“If the CIA or other similar agencies want to find workarounds, they will most likely do it, but now it will be much more difficult for them to do so,” Zhulyard added.
The RSF estimates the number of persecuted bloggers and online journalists who are in prison for their work at the level of 120 people, and this does not include countries such as China, Vietnam and Iran.
The project was supported by boxun.com, a Chinese news blog editor, who said that two of his blog’s editors were imprisoned for publishing government criticism.
© AFP 2010
original in english
The RSF group provides part of its Paris office for foreign journalists and bloggers, from where they can continue their activities through a secure Internet channel, disguising their online identity.
This project will also provide carefully selected foreign bloggers with free access to anonymous and secured Internet access and proxies in order to make it difficult for repressive administrations to prosecute bloggers for their activities.
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“This will allow them [bloggers] to connect securely to the Internet and continue their blogging activities,” said the head of RSF, Jean-François Zhuliard, during the launch of “virtual shelter”. He admitted that persistent administrations can find ways to bypass the masked Internet addresses, but nevertheless, the project can still help the harassed bloggers avoid arrest, which is happening now more and more often.
“If the CIA or other similar agencies want to find workarounds, they will most likely do it, but now it will be much more difficult for them to do so,” Zhulyard added.
The RSF estimates the number of persecuted bloggers and online journalists who are in prison for their work at the level of 120 people, and this does not include countries such as China, Vietnam and Iran.
The project was supported by boxun.com, a Chinese news blog editor, who said that two of his blog’s editors were imprisoned for publishing government criticism.
© AFP 2010
original in english
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/97636/
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