U LICE CENZURI

U danima kada, usled nemara, nesposobnosti i neodgovornosti vlasti, hrabri i humani građani preuzimaju funkcije države i pomažu unesrećenima iz poplavljenih i ugroženih područja – vlast troši vreme i energiju na kršenje slobode izražavanja, napadajući i gaseći internet stranice koje pozivaju na odgovornost.

Za samo nekoliko dana, privremeno su onesposobljeni blog „Druga strana“ i portal „Teleprompter“, a obrisan je ceo blog Dragana Todorovića na portalu „Blica“ nakon što je Todorović preneo tekst u kome se navode razlozi za ostavku Aleksandra Vučića. Prinuđeni smo da pretpostavimo da će sličnih primera cenzure biti i ubuduće.

U nedostatku snažne parlamentarne opozicije, uz mali broj štampanih i elektronskih medija koji kritikuju vlast, vlada Aleksandra Vučića i njeni pomagači napadaju kritičku misao na internetu, gušeći slobodu izražavanja. Suočena s neugodnim pitanjima i činjenicama koje joj ne idu naruku, vlast pribegava sili, čime dokazuje da nema argumente kojima bi odbranila svoje postupke.

Zahtevamo da vlast odmah prestane da napada slobodu izražavanja, da prestane da ometa rad kritički opredeljenih internet stranica, te da počne da odgovara na pitanja koja joj javnost sa neospornim pravom postavlja.

Zahtevamo da vlast poštuje i sva ostala prava i slobode, kao i vladavinu prava.

Zahtevamo da se odmah objave imena stradalih u poplavama.

Zahtevamo transparentno raspolaganje doniranim novcem.

Zahtevamo da moralno, prekršajno i krivično odgovaraju svi predstavnici vlasti, bez obzira na to na kom se nivou nalaze, za svaki život koji je mogao biti spasen da oni nisu bili nemarni, nesposobni i neodgovorni, i za svu uništenu imovinu koja je mogla biti zaštićena da su oni reagovali adekvatno.

Zahtevamo kraj cenzure i početak odgovornosti.

Blogovi i stranice:

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Akuzativ
Aleksandar Šurbatović
Alжirska pisma
Ana Milanović
Angelina Radulović – Piskaralo
Anita Mitić
Biljana – Samokazem
Bob Lebowski (Slobodan Vladuša)
Boban Stojanović
Constrictoria Boa
cult – B92 blog
DJ Ivica
Dokona popadija
Đorđe Bojović
Edis Đerlek
FCBK
Just Bloggin’
Kontrapress
Luka Božović
Marko Marjanović – Pošteno mu sudite pa da ga streljamo
Milica Čalija – blog
Milja Lukić
Miloš Sečujski – B92 blog
Nemam ime, imam komentar
Nenad Duda Petrović
Nešto sasvim neizvesno
Nikola Ćupas – blog
Novi Sad 2020
Novosadsko ubrojčavanje
Ostavite Teslu na miru
Panonska ludost
Parunova reč
Pavle Ćosić
Pećko pivo
Prešlicavanje
Raša Karapandža
Sajber Vanderlast
Sara Radojković
Savesna
Sistem i lom
Staša Koprivica – 100 lisica
Vazda nešto
VladanBa’s Blog
Vladan Slavković – Kraljevo online
Veličković::Blog
Velimir Mladenović – B92 blog
Žene sa Interneta

Građanke i građani:

Nikola Adžić
Stefan Aleksić
Ana Belotti
Ljiljana Bukvić
Bojan Cvejić
Robert Čoban
Snežana Čongradin
Vesna Đukanović
Ratko Femić
Višnja Filipović
Jovana Gligorijević
Jelena Jovanović
Aleksandar Kokotović
Lav Kozakijević
Sofija Mandić
Radmilo Marković
Vladimir Marović
Maja Mićić
Lazar Milovanović
Peđa Mitrović
Sandra Popović
Tatjana Radunović
Aleksandra Sokolović
Zorica Šćepanović
Stefan Šparavalo
Katarina Tadić
Nikola Tomić
Đorđe Trikoš
Maja Vasić Nikolić
Marko Vidojković
Ivan Vlajić
Maja Vrtarić
Sanja Zrnić

In the face of censorship

In the days when, due to neglect, incompetence and irresponsibility of the government, brave and humane citizens are taking over the functions of the state and helping the afflicted in the flooded and flood-threatened regions – the government is wasting time and energy on violating the freedom of expression by attacking and shutting down websites calling for them to assume responsibility. 

In just a few days, blog “Druga strana” (Other side) and portal “Teleprompter” were temporarily disabled, and the entire Dragan Todorović’s blog on “Blic” portal was deleted after he had re-published a text listing the reasons why Aleksandar Vučić should resign. We have no reason to doubt that similar instances of censorship will happen in the future. 

With the lack of strong parliamentary opposition, and just a few print and electronic media critiquing the regime, the government of Aleksandar Vučić and its aids are attacking the critical thought on the Internet, stifling freedom of expression. Faced with inconvenient questions and facts, the government is resorting to force, proving they lack arguments to defend their actions.

We demand the government immediately stop attacking the freedom of expression, stop interfering with critical websites and pages, and to start answering questions rightfully posed by the public. 

We demand the government respect all other rights and liberties, as well as rule of the law.

We demand the names of those killed by the floods be published immediately.

We demand transparency in managing the donated money. 

We demand all the representatives of the government, regardless of their governing position, assume full moral and legal responsibility for each life that could have been saved had they not been neglectful, incompetent and irresponsible, as well as for destroyed property that could have been protected had they adequately reacted.

We demand the end of censorship and the beginning of responsibility.