国际特赦组织警告互联网“可能在所有公认之外改变”，除非行动采取反对网上自由侵蚀。 警告在Amnesty组织的会议之前来，抑制受害者将概述他们的境况。

互联网抑制“病毒”从几个国家传播了到许多政府，说小组。

赦免被指责的公司例如Google、微软和雅虎是complicit在问题。

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当挑战在他们的存在国家例如中国从前时，公司指责了总主张他们简单地遵守地方法律。

特赦有关审查在增量。

“The Chinese model of an internet that allows economic growth but not free speech or privacy is growing in popularity, from a handful of countries five years ago to dozens of governments today who block sites and arrest bloggers,” said Tim Hancock, Amnesty’s campaign director.

“Unless we act on this issue, the internet could change beyond all recognition in the years to come.

More and more governments are realising the utility of controlling what people see online and major internet companies, in an attempt to expand their markets, are colluding in these attempts,” he said.

Amnesty has criticised Google’s presence in China

According to the latest Open Net Initiative report on internet filtering, at least 25 countries now apply state-mandated net filtering including Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.

Egyptian blogger

Filtering was only one aspect of internet repression, the group said. It added that increasingly it was seeing “politically motivated” closures of websites and net cafes, as well as threats and imprisonments.

Twenty-two-year-old Egyptian blogger Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman was imprisoned for four years in February for insulting Islam and defaming the President of Egypt.

Fellow Egyptian blogger Amr Gharbeia told the BBC that the internet was allowing people to express themselves: “The web is creating a more open society, it is allowing more people to speak out. It’s only natural that upsets some people.”

The Amnesty conference - Some People Think the Internet is a Bad Thing: The Struggle for Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace - will have some well-known speakers including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

It marks the first anniversary of Amnesty’s website irrepressible.info, which is being relaunched to become an information hub for anyone interested in the future of internet freedom.

BBC

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