Blogs for freedom

Many countries have limits on what people can write or on press freedom. Different coutries have different opinions. One country who has strong opinions is China. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6707-the-blog-revolution-sweeps-across-china.html
This is a great website to find information, you learn a lot. This is an interesting extract from it :

Ever since the Communist party took power in 1949, the Chinese media has been tightly controlled by the government. Online publishing is a real threat to that control, and the government is clearly worried. A crackdown in 2003 closed websites and internet cafes and saw the arrest of dozens of online commentators.
Yet this is not proving enough to stifle the pluck and ingenuity of China’s bloggers. The rise of the blog phenomenon was made possible by blog-hosting services. Just as companies like Yahoo host email accounts, sites like blogger.com, based in the United States, host blogs.
Blogs usually allow room for readers’ comments, and because they often contain numerous links to other blogs and websites, they each act as a unit in a dynamic community. Together they form an interconnected whole – the “blogosphere”.
When Mao and Zheng started CNBlog.org, China had 67 million internet users. Today, it has more than 90 million, and most are hungry for information. The official China Internet Network Information Center in Beijing says 62% of internet users go online primarily to read news. Internet cafes are spreading rapidly throughout China, even in rural areas, largely thanks to official efforts to promote technology and improve the country’s economic competitiveness.


People use blogs to express their opinions, like the man in my last blog. He wanted to express his feelings about Whales. This isn't always the best idea, as many people could disagree and you could get into a lot of trouble.