World day against cyber-censorship
World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (on 12 March 2011) is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without restrictions and accessible to all. Never have so many countries been affected by some form of online censorship, whether arrests or harassment of netizens, online surveillance, website blocking or the adoption of repressive Internet laws. Netizens are being targeted by government reprisals. Around 120 of them are currently detained for expressing their views freely online. World Day Against Cyber-Censorship pays tribute to them and their fight for Internet freedom.
The Enemies of the Internet
In 2011, netizens were at the heart of the political changes in the Arab world and elsewhere. They tried to resist the imposition of a news and information blackout but paid a high price. At the same time, supposedly democratic countries continued to set a bad example by yielding to the temptation to prioritize security over other concerns and by adopting disproportionate measures to protect copyright. Internet users in “free” countries have learned to react in order to protect what they have won. More than ever before, online freedom of expression is now a major foreign and domestic policy issue.
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Internet Enemies
BahrainBelarusBurmaChinaCubaIranNorth KoreaSaudi arabiaSyriaTurkmenistanUzbekistanVietnamCountries under surveillance
AustraliaEgyptEritreaFranceIndiaKazakhstanMalaysiaRussiaSouth KoreaSri LankaThailandTunisiaTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesThe map of cyber-censorship
Internet Enemies
Countries under surveillance
Netizen Prize
With support from Google, Reporters Without Borders will award the Netizen Prize, on Monday 12th March, at 6 p.m. The ceremony will take place in Paris.
The Netizen Prize will be awarded annually to a blogger, online journalist or cyber-dissident who has helped to promote freedom of expression on the Internet. The winner will receive 2,500 € in prize money.
Last year the prize was award to the members of the Tunisian independent collective blog Nawaat.
With the support of 
- Leonardo Sakamoto, Brazil
- Residents of the village of Wukan, China
- Maikel Nabil Sanad, Egypt
- Grigory Melkonyants and the Golos team, Russia
- Media centres of the local coordination committees, Syria
- Paulus Lê van Son, Vietnam
Cyber-tag
To draw attention to this situation, the JWT Paris ad agency came up with the idea of a temporary website dedicated to combating cyber-censorship. Called Cyber Tag (www.cyber-tag.net), it allows Internet users to pin messages on virtual versions of the embassies of the 10 countries that Reporters Without Borders has identified as “Enemies of the Internet.”Inspired by the slogan “It’s ink that should flow not blood” which Reporters Without Borders activists painted during a protest outside the Syrian embassy in Paris in May 2011, the Cyber Tag site invites Internet users to stage virtual demos outside the embassies of their choice and to leave messages on their facades.
What you can do
Do you want to show your support for World Day Against Cyber-Censorship? Do you want to defend an Internet without restrictions and accessible to everyone? Don’t hesitate to download this logo and post it on your blog, website, Facebook profile or Twitter account.
Click on the logos to download them
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