Google has long promoted the cause of free expression in Germany, holding a Breaking Borders ceremony two years ago and organising the 361 Tolerance campaign . We are also supporting third party initiatives, most recently by sponsoring the prestigious M100 Sanssouci Colloquium , in Potsdam, just outside of Berlin.M100 prize for press freedom to Chinese blogger Michael Anti. Born Jing Zhao in 1975, he took the pseudonym Michael Anti. After working as a reporter in Iraq and as an assistant in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times, he now is a freelancer and one of the country’s most read independent bloggers, with more than two million subscribers. He accepted the Sanssouci award at the event’s concluding dinner, given in the opulent palace of 18th century Prussian king Frederick the Great. “Freedom of Speech is not a privilege of the United States,” he declared. “It is for all of us.”Michael Anti at the awards ceremony, talking with attendees and media.
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Global Democracy - A Triumph for Social Networks? the high-profile participants discussed the importance of blogs and social networks. Most participants concluded that the Internet is not the cause for unrest, merely a conduit for expressing a population’s already felt grievances. “There was no Internet and the trade union Solidarity still counted 10 million members a month after it was born in 1981,” noted Grzegorz Jankovski, editor-in-chief of the Polish daily Fakt. convicted three Google employees for a video uploaded to a Google platform, even though they have never produced, approved or even seen the video. The forum proved a good opportunity to explain Google’s support for freedom of expression, for example by ensuring that the number of requests made of by governments are available on our Transparency Report . I also described our participation in the Global Network Initiative .Posted by William Echikson, Head of Free Expression, Europe, Middle East and Africa
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