Committee to Protect Bloggers » Text messaging http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org Free speech for bloggers worldwide Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en The Cult of the Citizen http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2007/09/29/the-cult-of-the-citizen/ http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2007/09/29/the-cult-of-the-citizen/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:06:43 +0000 Curt http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2007/09/29/the-cult-of-the-citizen/ Burma has become an object lesson for the power of blogging and, sadly, for the vulnerability of bloggers to the actions of a determined government. Protests began in August and, due to the lack of both independent domestic press and the presence of many international journalists, bloggers did the heavy-lifting in getting the news out.

Burma-based bloggers followed every turn of news in the streets and provided traditional news organizations with information and media they would not otherwise have had.

When the crackdown began last week, and those bloggers’ access was blocked, like Niknayman , or hijacked and deleted, like Sone Se Yar, external Burmese news sites such as Mizzima and Irrawaddy, as well as exile bloggers like Ko-Htike continued to post news and photos gotten from citizens inside via email, cell phone calls and text messages.

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