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Greece: Blog censorship in Greece ahead of the IGF forum in Athens

Categories: Western Europe, Greece, Digital Activism, Freedom of Speech, Technology

Currybetdotnet reports [1] about the administrator of a Greek RSS aggregating service (blogme.gr [2]) who was sued, arrested and jailed for hosting a link to a blog with allegedly offending content. This censorship case occurs days ahead of UN's IGF forum in Athens, which among other issues will be focusing on ‘Freedom of expression, free flow of information, ideas and knowledge‘.