Sunday Morning Blog

July 22, 2005

Freedom to Blog

[mood | anxious ]

We have a lot to be grateful for here in the United States. I think we (or at least I) lose sight of that sometimes. I was reading an article this morning telling of how Microsoft was enabling the Chinese government to censor blogs and their content. Words like “freedom,” “democracy” and “demonstration” are being blocked from being published. It is not like you can eliminate these basic ideas by regulating blogs and their content, but the intentions are there to stomp these peoples' freedoms. I wonder if Google will agree to block search results for such words too? Scary. I am proud to be an American, allowed to express myself freely. We take so much for granted here.

It was just a couple of months ago that I asked links to my blog be removed by a certain local site. I was irritated at their censorship of certain blog entries (by omission from front page links) that conflicted with their own personal agenda. We live in America. I am free to express my views and, luckily, I am free to choose where and when those views will be expressed. To have a local site linking to my blog and playing Microsoft to my blog entries offended me. It is sad that some don't see that what we are doing here is expressing ourselves for our own personal benefit... not the benefit of others. Happily, there are local folk around who realize this importance and offer us an unedited forum for our ideas.

Posted by capecodcyclist at July 22, 2005 06:56 AM