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Thursday, January 8, 2009,
When reading about how online journalists are treated in other countries, it really got me thinking. It got me thinking about how lucky and privileged we are to live in a country where such things don't happen. It was unbelievable to see the number of people in other countries who were imprisoned for expressing their own opinion by online journalism. In china approximately 35 people were imprisoned. It was also shocking to see that such popular internet/computer companies were involved in the imprisonment. This included such popular companies like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! After learning about how bloggers' privacy and freedom are easily compromised and taken away in countries such as China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran, how does this make you feel about your right to blog? This made me feel very privileged and lucky to live in a country where you can express your opinion. Knowing that there are other people out there who try to do nothing more than express their opinion and openly talk about issues affecting their country, get arrested and outspoken by those of "higher authority". It also makes me seriously think about how much we can sometimes take for granted. For example, blogging and expressing ourselves online. If teenagers and other blog users were to have their rights and privileges of freedom of speech online, it would cause a lot of problems/controversy.
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