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Reporters Without Borders made available websites banned by authorities

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Reporters Without Borders made available websites banned by authorities

The human rights organisation has launched a campaign in defence of independent online media.

They gave access to 9 news websites, blocked in 11 countries of the world. In order to restore access to the blocked websites, the organisation had set up mirrors, or copies – essentially replica websites - on Amazon Web Services and Google, BBC. reports.

The list of unblocked websites includes a Russian website Grani.ru, Fergananews.com blocked in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, Gooya News, blocked in Iran; websites blocked in Cuba, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and also 2 websites blocked in China.

As said by a spokesman for the campaign, blocking Amazon, Google, Microsoft or any major cloud computing service provider would cripple the thousands of tech companies that use them every day. The economic and political cost of blocking the mirror sites would therefore be too high.

It is said by the spokesman, that access to these websites is to be maintained for several months.

We remind that Belarusian users expressed repeated complaints that access to oppositional websites and independent online media, including charter97.org, is periodically blocked.

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