Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) is organizing the blogosphere into a mass protest action next Friday, Nov. 8. The group is calling on all bloggers to demonstrate against Internet censorship and repression against bloggers in 13 countries.

In order to combat this kind of censorship and to make as many people as possible aware of the situation, Reporters Without Borders is for the first time launching a major protest: 24 hours against online censorship. The general public, Internet users, bloggers, journalists, students - everyone is invited to register their opposition to censorship with a simple click.

The RSF site will include features to send a voicemail to Yahoo to protest the company's collaboration with China's repressive measures against bloggers.

Why Yahoo? Because this was the first company to censor its own search engine to curry favour with the Chinese authorities. And because it has been collaborating for years with the Chinese police, which arrests and convicts dissident and freelance journalists. Shi Tao, for example, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the basis of information supplied by Yahoo!, which hosted his e-mail account.

RSF is urging every website and blog to participate in the demonstration day. Saatchi and Saatchi have created an ad campaign for the day. The group is asking for blogs to post promotional animations on their sites to promote the day.