Interesting article on the BBC News site about blogging:
Weblogs started off as a personal outpouring, a kind of digital diary.
If you work on the basis that a problem shared is a problem halved, you can share with millions and – who knows?
Now blogs feature everything from cant on cars, opinions on opera, to rants from the politically righteous East and West.
But not everyone is free to say what they think.
Reporters Sans Frontières campaigns for the rights of journalists in China, where the ability to turn a nice phrase in criticism can be frowned on from a height.
In fact, the list of things you cannot talk about in China is almost as long as the things you can, as Cai Chongguo, a Chinese dissident, explains.
“We can’t talk about police or military corruption.
“And of course we can’t say anything about workers or farmer demonstrations. All that’s taboo.
“According to Reporters Sans Frontières, at least 63 bloggers have been arrested, and most of those are publishing articles outside of the country.
“These are people who are really resisting government oppression.”