links for 2007-02-23
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February 23, 2007|
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"The Egyptian government today for the first time sentenced a blogger to prison for his writings, threatening a window of free speech that has emerged on the Internet, Human Rights Watch said today."
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"An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president."
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"Despite a support site, petitions and demonstrations in Bahrain, London, Stockholm, Paris, Rome, New York (twice) and Washington DC calling for his release, an Alexandria court found him guilty and sentenced him to four years in prison."
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"Will the emergence of the Internet cause the age of free creative writing to come forth earlier? Will it bring out more independent writers? These phenomena already exist. The good works that I have read all came from the Internet..."
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"Blogs are there. Podcasts are there. YouTube celebrities are there. Global Voices is there. So what?"
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"the supply chain of global reporting has lost one layer and added another. Foreign correspondents ...are a passé and unnecessary obstacle in how we learn about what is happening in the rest of the world. In their place, we find a new position in the new
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"Despite the signs that North Korea's web culture is ready to take off, internet-juche remains a reassuring form of control in the hermit regime."
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"What can you do, as a defender of online free speech, when your country, your fellow citizens–and maybe you –are insulted by those exercising freedom of speech?"
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" the reaction from the blogosphere in Egypt and throughout the Middle East is a bit more complicated. Kareem’s blog posts have upset many Egyptian bloggers, who were upset with his comments criticizing Islam. "
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