Welcome to our interim “About” page. As the Committee to Protect Bloggers is in a period of reorganization, expect some elements of this page to change over time. In the near future we hope to introduce new committee members here, welcome our new advisory board and offer some insight into our projects, campaigns and partners.

• We report on attacks, intimidation and oppression of bloggers.
• We promote tools and guides  that promoting safety, security, privacy for bloggers, as well as methods to circumvent censorship.
• We will try to connect bloggers facing oppression with the legal assistance they need.
• We will raise funds for legal assistance for bloggers.
• We also  endeavor to support the freedom of expression for users of social media sites.

To get involved, visit our Contact page.

To see current Committee Members, go here.

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The Committee to Protect Bloggers is devoted to the protection of bloggers worldwide with a focus on highlighting the plight of bloggers threatened and imprisoned by their government. We support the right of bloggers, regardless of professional status or engagement in activism, to speak and we do so regardless of their ethnicity, national origin, religion or political beliefs.

The Committee was formed in January of 2005. It went on hiatus in mid-2006 and was reactivated in August of 2007. It is a 501(c)3 U.S. tax-exempt non-profit corporation.

Our main goal is to act as the clearing house for information on threatened bloggers. You can read press on our activites on the Press Page. We have been written about by and interviewed for the Christian Science Monitor, Village Voice, Public Radio International’s The World, PBS MediaShift, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5, Guardian, Oakland Tribune, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sacromento Bee, Associated Press, Time, Foreign Policy, National Law Review, American Bar Association Journal, Overseas Press Club of America, Wall Street Journal, PR Week, Smart Money, Foreign Policy, The Tammy Bruce Show, CBS Radio, TechWeb, The Jerusalem Report, Popular Science, Liberation, Columbia Journalism Review, La Vanguardia, Internazionale, La Voz de Galicia, Malaysia Today, Slate, Journalism.co.uk, NRC Handelsblad, Antena 1, De Standaard and others. We have been invited to write op-eds for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and Canada’s National Post.

You can contact us via our website. If you are a Facebook user, we encourage you to also join our CPB Cause page and if you use Twitter, follow our updates.