Amnesty International teams up with an adblocker to serve its ads on publisher sites
Activists Edward Snowden, Pussy Riot and Ai Weiwei star in a new Amnesty International campaign protesting censorship which is being served up online via an adblocking service.
The messages, from the globally recognised political activists, were broadcast across the internet on the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, March 12.
Throughout the day AdBlock’s 50m users were served the messages from Amnesty International, where ads would usually appear on publisher sites. New Zealand-based Colenso BBDO is behind the campaign.
The messages contained clickthroughs to content from people who governments have tried to silence.
So they used the spaces where ads would normally be? Sounds like an advertising campaign to me.
If you think “freedom of speech” means you’re entitled to say anything you want … you’re wrong. If you think it’s your right at birth … wrong. If you think “freedom” of speech is intended to encourage the discussion and expression of topics affecting and influencing the common society … and that this right is earned … then you are … right.
Promoting freedom of speech but destroying the publishers’ ability to pay for investigative journalism.
Misguided twats.
This is straight up theft.
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