The Australian: Bloggers of the world, let’s shop!
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:44
Online culture is thriving in almost every country I visited. The exception is Cuba … Most bloggers prefer to protest privately, anonymously or not at all … Despite their relatively small numbers and the penalties they attract, dissenting bloggers are playing havoc with the established order. According to Human Rights Watch researcher Elijah Zarwan, "bloggers have succeeded in doing something that years of standing on the street corner and shouting 'No to torture' or 'No to the interior ministry' has never managed to accomplish": putting these issues on the public agenda."
