TyrannyBook

Tyrannybook (http://tyrannybook.com/), which is currently down for the time being, is the clever brainchild of Amnesty International - Portugal, based on social networking statistics.  It takes the same idea as facebook, allowing you to create a profile and "follow" tyrants around the world.  The idea is that millions visit social networking sites in a day, so if we could get people to do that with Tyrannybook, it would shed light on the unfair circumstances for people under tyrant rule across the globe, give hope to those under tyrannical regimes, and give a voice to those who don't have their own.

Tyrannybook is a social network dedicated to the surveillance of some of the world leaders who violate Human Rights the most.  Tyrannybook was born as part Amnesty International's plan for 2010 of getting more involved in social networks, both to gain the visibility inherent to these web platforms, and to facilitate the contact between the causes it promotes and the public. The network aims to generate a global consciousness about the countless atrocities that take place across the globe.  As the name implies, the website is a Facebook clone, and looks almost exactly the same, with the familiar blue giving way to an aggressive red.



Released by Amnesty, the profiles of the tyrants are updated both by the organization itself and by the users, according to the current situation of the countries where they lead. However, as time goes by, it will expand by the addition of new profiles from the Amnesty. It’s up to each user to decide which leaders they are most interested to watch. Between them, users can even become allies, exchanging points of view and discussing current issues.

In this first phase there are ten tyrants in the site: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan, Kim Jong Il of North Korea, Than Shwe of Myanmar, Hu Jintau of China, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Radovan Karadzic of Serbia, Aleksandr Lukashenka of Belarus and Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov of Chechnya.

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