Blog Arrests
Phil U at Whoar links to a story in in the Guardian about how a record number of bloggers are being arrested.
“Egypt, Iran and China are the most dangerous places to blog about political life, accounting for more than half of all arrests since blogging became big,” said Phil Howard, an assistant professor of communication at the university.
He believes that the figure of 36 may be a dramatic underestimate, because many arrests are never made public.
The full report reveals the average jail term is 15 months for bloggers.
The same report also looks at online political content (87 GB of it) by ideology of the arrested bloggers. They find:
- Socialist 21%
- Conservative 16%
- Liberal 15%
- Communist 4%
- Islamic Fundamentalist 3%
- Islamic Secular 3%