Thursday, November 30, 2006

Web Diarists Are Challenging Censors

Der Spiegel are running a story that about equates with my idea of the only place where democracy actually has room to be ...

Authoritarian states like China, Iran and Egypt are having trouble dealing with the burgeoning number of critical online diaries. These blogs, which multiply by the second, expose news about incidents that many regimes would prefer to keep hushed up. In many countries, blogs are giving people their first real taste of democracy.

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