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Macedonia: Documenting Online Protest Against Censorship

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, North Macedonia, Citizen Media, Digital Activism, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Law, Media & Journalism, Politics, Protest

On October 9, nearly 200 Macedonian websites participated in a day-long blackout, protesting the censorship-inducing provisions [mk [1], en [2], sq [3]] that the Government “sneaked in” within the Draft Law on Civic Liability for Defamation, presented as approved by the EU and COE [4]. Activists from Free Software Macedonia [3], who provided the JavaScript code for the initiative, also documented the Blackout initiative [5] [mk] on their wiki.