11/19/2010

Twitter Labor Camp

"Sentencing someone to a year in a labor camp, without trial, for simply repeating another person's clearly satirical observation on Twitter demonstrates the level of China's repression of online expression," Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Director Sam Zarifi said in a statement.
more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/18/international/i172301S79.DTL#ixzz15iayoP3I

fuck Twitter and all, but this is relevant. Censorship is rotting away our freedoms and cultures. Prisoners of conscious are my heroes.

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