THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY » Internet Governance Forum http://deviousdiva.com The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:46:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Protest Email http://deviousdiva.com/2006/10/30/protest-email/ http://deviousdiva.com/2006/10/30/protest-email/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:16:33 +0000 deviousdiva http://deviousdiva.com/?p=226 Teacher Dude has written this excellent email for you to copy/paste and send to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) being held in Athens. Please take this action and spread the word.

To the Internet Governance Forum,

It seems that the Greek state has joined that illustrious list of enlightened regimes that feels that it can use the full force of the law to gag bloggers who have unpopular opinions. The owner of a Greek blog aggregating service www.blogme.gr is currently being sued for hosting a blog with some satirical material about a famous person. Antonis Tsiropoulos, Blogme’s administrator was arrested and hauled off to the spend the night in jail and later to taken in handcuffs to the District Attorney. This is akin to arresting the owners of Technorati or Google in a midnight raid as they hosted something I disagree with.

It is a shame that the country charged with holding a conference on internet issues such as access and freedom of expression should permit the kind of draconian police action seen in the case of Antonis Tsiropoulos.

On behalf on the blogging community, both in Greece and abroad, I call upon the IGF to condemn this action in the strongest terms possible and exert all possible pressure on the Greek authorities to look into the matter.”

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