Have any spare USB memory sticks lying around? Human rights campaigners want them as part of a new movement to beat the foreign media blackout in North Korea and propaganda about the West being spewed by Kim Jong-un's hermit regime. It might seem like a very small thing to do, but the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and Silicon Valley non-profit organization Forum 280 have launched the Flash Drives for Freedom campaign, seeking as many working USB memory sticks as possible. The idea is to donate these memory sticks to North Korean refugee-led organizations, who will fill the drives with Western TV shows and films in order to dispel the lies and illusions the regime tells its people – such as claims that the West and South Korea are dangerous, hostile, poor and vastly inferior to North Korea. "You can be involved just by shipping a USB drive to Palo Alto, and we'll help to get it sent to North Korea.
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