Friday, November 21, 2008

Bloggers Targeted Again

Iranian 'Blogfather' Hossein Derakhshan has been arrested on the charge of spying for Israel. This is just one more example of the fear that bloggers are able to instill in governments that have been used to being able to control and restrict the information reaching its public. New develepments in electronic media make it more and more difficult to limit the sharing of knowledge within a nation and between peoples globally. This breaks down the state monopoly on knowledge and the power that this affords them.

H
ossein Derakhshan was based in London after spending several years in Canada and had returned to live in Iran a few weeks ago. In 2006 he
had made a trip to Israel; his aim was to show his “20,000 daily Iranian readers what Israel really looks like and how people live there”.

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