21 April 2008
© Martin WurtOver the next three months we'll be constructing huge yellow 'walls' in major cities across Australia. The walls represent the Chinese internet censorship regime known as the Great Firewall of China. We want members of the public to dismantle the walls, brick by brick, in the run-up to the Beijing Games. But we need your help!
Over the next three months we'll be constructing huge yellow 'walls' in major cities across Australia. The walls represent the Chinese internet censorship regime known as the Great Firewall of China.
We want members of the public to dismantle the walls, brick by brick, in the run-up to the Beijing Games. But we need your help!
We need volunteers to guide members of the public to the walls and explain how they can take action.
In each of the 20,000 bricks which make up the walls is an 'action card' addressed to one of the large internet companies who help the Chinese Government censor internet users in China.
Media giants like Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft, and some less well-known in the West, such as Sohu and Baidu, assist the Chinese Government to block the internet when people either search for or post information the Government deems inappropriate.
Our action cards call on these companies to stop assisting the Chinese Government to violate human rights.
Find out more about the Firewalls and when they'll be in a city or town near you.
It is only appripriate to come together and put a stop to this illegal and immoral action by the Chinese government, let alone a human right violation. People’s privacy should be respected. Lets destroy the Firewall.
Just wondering about the colour of the wall, which brings to mind the the good old Yellow Peril slogan, and therefore might strike a lot of people as being in quite bad taste.
the author needs to consider sending all chinese police into unemployment first.
i stongly support to dismantle the walls, brick by brick, in the run-up to the Beijing Games.
thanks
if yahoo, google, microsoft and others aid China in its persecution of people who express peaceful views on the net they are providing material support for terrorism no less than if they provided weapons or strategic information to a rogue state or organisation such as Zimbabwe or Al Qeada. If China wants the respect of the world and to truly achieve its potential in the world, it should treat its citizens with dignity and if western corporations want to continue to enjoy the freedom that makes their businesses profitable they cannot bargain justice away for some and expect their world to go unchanged.
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