As the UN humanitarian headquarters and the host city of numerous NGOs, Geneva is considered the world capital of human rights. The Swiss branch of Reporters Without Borders and NY-based PEN American Center partner to celebrate World Day Against Cyber Censorship, an initiative launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008 to support a single Internet without walls and available to all. Though walls still stand today, bloggers, hacktivists and specialists in Internet security have been astonishingly creative in their circumvention of censorship, matching the vanguard vigilance of censors.
Thursday, 12 of March 2012 from 7:00PM
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
Manhattan, New York 10003
Come hear international bloggers who will share their personal experience with censorship, and Internet experts who will offer information and new technology to help netizens of the world outwit surveillance.
More information:
- Participation at 'World Day Against Cyber Censorship' by ThinkSwiss
- Breaking Through Internet Censorship
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