Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters without Borders) has issued a handbook for bloggers in countries where the media is censored or under pressure. The book contains handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.
Blogs get people excited, or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them, others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom. Bloggers are often the only ones in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure to provide independent news at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
Of course, some of the suggestions do work also if there isn’t any censorship or pressure upon you.
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