Still think blogging isn’t powerful? Tell that to the 64 people who’ve been arrested since 2003 for blogging.

Yep. Arrested.

And it’s getting worse. The arrest rate has tripled from 2006 to 2007. We just read about this in a BBC news report, and you can read the whole report referenced in the news at the World Information Access site.

And here’s the sobering closing paragraph from the WIA’s own blog post about this:

After surveying our data, we predict that the number of blogger arrests will rise in 2008. The popularity of online blogs continues to grow and inspire more media coverage of arrest incidents. Countries are enforcing greater Internet regulation, which will only increase with the elections in China, Pakistan, Iran and the United States this year. Assuming a pattern similar to Egypt’s occurs, the number of political blogger arrests has nowhere to go but up. With already four incidents in January and February, we expect the number of arrests in 2008 will exceed that of 2007.

Take advantage of the power you have at your disposal with blogging.

And with that, I’m stepping down off my soapbox. 

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