Global Voices Online, som är en form av “oberoende” media, rapporterar från marginaliserade områden i världen genom medborgarjournalism. Ett delområde av webbsidan är framförallt fokuserad på yttrandefrihet och internetcensur. Där finns det en mash-up: en googlekarta kombinerad med information om områden i världen där censur mot olika web 2.0 webbsidor på internet har skett, men även information om olika grupper som kämpar mot censuren.
The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 websites. This project will also track and explore the relationships between anti-censorship groups in different parts of the world who are collaborating to defend the right to access web 2.0 tools and websites.
The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas:
1. the crackdown on web 2.0 websites;
2. the amplifying of local campaigns defending the right to access web 2.0 tools and websites.
The Access Denied Map will lead interested readers to content that enables them to support anti-censorship movements and keeps readers abreast of the filtering situation in various parts of the world. It will also facilitate collaboration between activists, allowing them to find each other, share tactics and strategies and experiences.
En gemensam nämnare för många av inläggen handlar om hur något ur den privata sfären, eller som ska hållas i skuggan för medborgare, blir till offentligt. Detta är basen för “many-to-many”sidor som byggs upp av användargenererat material.
In August 2006, Bahrain blocked access to Google Earth for few days. According to Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the reason of the block may be because Google Earth “allows users to see the lavish palaces and illegal coastal reclamations on land privately owned by members of the Al-Khalifa royal family, images which would otherwise be inaccessible to regular citizens.”
