What am I doing right now? Right, I am blogging about our Social Web class. I could also be blogging about all kinds of things. Blogging can also be a way of journalism, but people still have trouble recognizing bloggers as journalists. Well at least that is right for the countries of the "Free West".
But what about the other countries where the right of free speech isn't established?
Lets find out.
I had a look at this website: http://cpj.org/reports/2009/04/10-worst-countries-to-be-a-blogger.php
There is a list where 10 of the worst countries to be a blogger are shown. As you can imagine these countries censor the media and do not allow their journalists to speak freely.
There are countries like Egypt where more than 100 bloggers were arrested in 2008, China where nearly 300 million people are using the internet - thats more than in any other country in the world - but the government is highly censoring the content or Vietnam where the government introduced a new agency in 2008 only to control whats going on online.
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