09-22-2005, 10:21 PM
Guide Aims to Help Bloggers Beat Censors
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a series of personal accounts, bloggers explain how they tried to beat censorship in countries such as <b>Iran, China and Nepal</b>.
"We can write freely in blogs," writes Arash Sigarchi, an Iranian journalist who was nonetheless sentenced to 14 years in prison for posting messages online that criticized the Iranian regime.
RSF, as the organization is known under its French acronym, ends the handbook with a "championship" of top Internet censors, starting with China and its "clever mix of investment, technology and diplomacy."
"<b>A call for free elections ... has a maximum online life of about half an hour,</b>" Pain writes of censorship in China.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a series of personal accounts, bloggers explain how they tried to beat censorship in countries such as <b>Iran, China and Nepal</b>.
"We can write freely in blogs," writes Arash Sigarchi, an Iranian journalist who was nonetheless sentenced to 14 years in prison for posting messages online that criticized the Iranian regime.
RSF, as the organization is known under its French acronym, ends the handbook with a "championship" of top Internet censors, starting with China and its "clever mix of investment, technology and diplomacy."
"<b>A call for free elections ... has a maximum online life of about half an hour,</b>" Pain writes of censorship in China.
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