Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Blog censorship handbook released

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) released a book for bloggers called ' Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents '.The handbook offers advice to bloggers who want to protect themselves from recrimination and censorships.It has handy tips and technical advice on how to remain anonymous.

Here is what they (
Reporters Without Borders ) say about the book " Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression.
Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.
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You can get a English version of the book in pdf format from http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542 .The very page has a separate printer friendly version.

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