Lynne Featherstone MP, renowned e-campaigner and award-winning blogger, has signed Amnesty International’s campaign calling on corporations and governments world-wide to act to protect freedom of expression in cyberspace.

Lynne Featherstone MP comments:

“Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of any truly democratic society and we must not shy away from standing up for this right as progress into the new global digital era.

“Tyrants and depots are right to fear the Internet as it will hopefully be the means to end their repressive rule, but we must act now before spineless corporation kowtow to these hateful regimes.”

She has signed up to the campaign to publish extracts from banned documents on her website.

Notes to editors:

The Amnesty campaign is at http://irrepressible.info/pledge

The pledge says, “I believe the Internet should be a force for political freedom, not repression. People have the right to seek and receive information and to express their peaceful beliefs online without fear or interference. I call on governments to stop the unwarranted restriction of freedom of expression on the Internet – and on companies to stop helping them do it.”

The extracts from censored documents appear in the bottom right of the front page of Lynne Featherstone’s website, www.lynnefeatherstone.org