Abu Aardvark: Control of Bloggers ‘Predictable’

Abu Aardvark: Control of Bloggers ‘Predictable'

Posted 3 January 2008 22:21 GMT

Countries	Egypt
Topics	Digital Activism

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Abu Aardvark discusses campaigns to free jailed Arab bloggers in this post. “What's happening to Arab bloggers was entirely predictable: their increasing visibility and political influence (at home and abroad) drew the attention of security services, which began to push back and try to regain control,” he writes.

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