Blogging as Press Freedom in Repressive Places

museumpeace writes "CNN is carrying an AP story from France on the release of guidelines to help bloggers working under threat of suppressive governments to get out their stories without getting caught. "Reporters Without Borders' 'Handbook for Blogger and Cyber-Dissidents" is partly financed by the French government and includes technical advice on how to remain anonymous online.' Makes me proud to be a developer of communication software."

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practicality?

[CupBeEmpty]

I am truly, before anything else, a proponent of personal freedoms. I know that this is definitely something that is common in technology communities. I am really heartened by an article like this.

The only question is how much impact will a blog have on a repressive government like China (or worse N. Korea... if blogging is even possible there). Will the next Thomas Paine be a blogger?

Re:We need this here in Jesusland

[RLiegh]

macdaddy357 wrote:

This how to blog anonymously book is a great thing for free speech. We need it here in Jesusland, too. I sure do miss America.

From TFA:

"We can write freely in blogs," writes Arash Sigarchi, an Iranian journalist who was nonetheless sentenced to 14 years in prison for posting several messages online that criticized the Iranian regime.

That's routine in countries such as Iran and China; here the worst you can state is that you don't like the liberal slant of CNN.

Really, things here could be much worse; wake me up when we've got our own Falun Gong problem here.

Kudos to Reporters Without Borders

[Sundroid]

These guys at Reporters Without Borders got guts -- on their website, they put the names and photos of the heads of states where there is no press freedom and call them "Predators of Press Freedom". Check it out at: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=1087