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Praised be brave bloggers. Support their right to voice their views.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Image from Library of Congress's website. Robust protection must be provided to free speech worldwide. That is a message I have been emphasizing and re-emphasizing for decades.  Bloggers represent one of the biggest perceived dissident threats to repressive governments -- and all government repress people's rights to one degree or another -- by changing the pre-Internet, pre-computer government censorship model that went beyond jailing dissidents to depriving disfavored publishers of newsprint, printing presses, photocopiers, and publishing licenses; jamming radio broadcasts; and monitoring and jamming dissidents' telephone calls. Even seizing a blogger's computer does not prevent the blogger from blogging at an Internet cafe or a friend's computer, because blogging software ordinarily resides on the Internet and not on one's computer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).