Committee to Protect Bloggers

Click here to listen to me gibber like a gibbon on Cubanology’s Speak Your Mind radio show.

Among the recent coverage of the CPB are a piece in the Economist, one in the Yemen Times and others in ReadWriteWeb and Ars Technica.
From the Economist’s article on Syria called “Red lines that cannot be crossed,” published on July 24th.
In May Tareq Bayassi, aged 24, was jailed for three years for publishing “false news” […]

Our 1,000th member is the great and powerful Amine Taha! (And @aminetaha on Twitter.)
Thanks to Amine for having the decency, self-respect and common sense to join our little group. And thanks to all the rest of you for being members #1-999.

Update: Jose had something very important come up and we have had to postpone our discussion. I will let you know when, once we reschedule it.
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Jose & Ziva from “Cubanology’s Speak Your Mind,” a show on BlogTalkRadio, will be interviewing me today, Saturday, at 1:00 p.m. (PST). You can listen to Speak Your Mind live […]

If anyone reading is interested in taking over the position of director - in reality, editor - of the Committee to Protect Bloggers, please email a cover letter and resume to committeetoprotectbloggers|@|gmail|.|com.
The primary duty of the editor is to use personal connections, websites, search feeds and other tools and resources to break news on, and […]

We have an opportunity to travel to Cuba and interview Cuban bloggers for a possible presentation on the Washington Post’s PostGlobal series. Please help us get there and get the information on these bloggers to the wider world. They’ve blossomed over the last year but have recently begun to see blocks and shut-downs. They occupy […]

There are three ways to get additional information on threatened bloggers and threats to bloggers from the Committee to Protect Bloggers. Sometimes there are stories that we don’t write up as separate posts but provide context or depth to your picture of the state of free speech for bloggers worldwide. These vehicles will give you […]

Sometimes a story is interesting, but is a bit off-topic, or doesn’t feel like it quite justifies a post on CPB. In that case, I will usually save it to our social bookmarking account, which is also visible in the sidebar to the right. Occasionally, a story justifies a post just fine but frankly I […]

We haven’t done a very good job of promoting the forum we created for Blogging and Free Speech Worldwide. If you haven’t visited, please drop by and introduce yourself. You can exchange information and ask questions. Perhaps one goal for the forums might be as a repository for every proxy you can find. Have another […]

I put in a drop-down translator at the top of the middle column. Let me know how it works for you. (Via RRW.)