World Day Against Cyber Censorship is an online event held each year on March 12 to draw attention to the ways that governments around the world are deterring and censoring free speech online.Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0. Reporters Without Borders (Paris), 18 March 2010, . Netizen Prize (2010-2014)
On World Day Against Cyber Censorship, Reporters Without Borders awards an annual Netizen Prize that recognizes an Internet user, blogger, cyber-dissident, or group who has made a notable contribution to the defense of online freedom of expression."March 12: World Day Against Cyber-Censorship", Maira Sutton, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 12 March 2012."Reporters Without Borders : For Freedom of Information", Brochure, Reporters Without Borders, 16 April 2012. Starting in 2010 the prize has been awarded to:
2010: Iranian women's rights activists of the Change for Equality website, www.we-change.org. 2011: the founders of a Tunisian blogging group named Nawaat.org. 2012: Syrian citizen journalists and activists of the Media center of the Local Coordination Committees. 2013: Vietnamese blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh. 2014: Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi."Reporters Without Borders - TV5Monde Prize for Press Freedom", Reporters Without Borders, 5 November 2014
Enemies of the Internet list (20062014)
In conjunction with World Day Against Cyber Censorship, Reporters Without Borders published its Enemies of the Internet list periodically from 20062014."Reporters Without Borders releases 'Enemies of the Internet' list", France24 (France Médias Monde), 13 March 2014.
See also
Internet censorship and surveillance by country
References
External links "Privacy is for the powerless." Edward Snowden, at Amnesty International, March 2016