Andrew R. Jones

I just added the irrepressible.info widget to my site and thought I would write up a quick blog post to help promote it.

irrepressible.info is a campaign from Amnesty International which allows people to republish excerpts of censored sites on their websites. The idea is to undermine states such as China and Iran that are trying to censor and control free speech on the Internet.

To add the widget to your WordPress sidebar simply go to the Widgets admin page and add a new text widget. Then enter the following text into the widget:

<script type="text/javascript">
var irr_lang = 'en';
</script>
<script src="http://fragments.irrepressible.info/js/fragment-180.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>

Once you have saved the changes the widget will now be displayed in your side panel. The text will change on each page load with censored material from the irrepressible.info database.

A number of different widgets are also available from the irrepressible.info website and it also has a public API.

If you have some free space on your site then consider adding this widget and supporting a very worthwhile cause. There is also a pledge you can sign at the website.