Recent arrests a reminder that blogging comes with risks

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080918-recent-arrests-a-reminder-that-blogging-comes-with-risks.html

The United States court system has some troubles with how they should deal with bloggers. Recently some bloggers have been charged and forced to serve prison sentences. Two of the bloggers were in countries on the southern tip of Asia. In these countries the government try to control what their citizens say and think. They control the blogs in an attempt to control their populations. One of the bloggers was Gopalan Nair. He was punished for criticizing a judge that ruled in favor of the ruling family of Singapore. He is an American citizen living in Singapore. The fact that he was persecuted for blogging about his personal beliefs. In Malaysia another blogger was charged. The most recent case of a blogger being charged happened in Malaysia. The blogger Kickdefella posted a blog depicting an upside down Malaysian flag. This post was an attempt to organize a protest of the government. The result was that him and two other bloggers were arrested under security statutes. These cases against those who have blogged their ideas show that other countries may not be as tolerant of what people can say about their government. These cases hopefully do not reflect what is to come in this country. The FBI may begin to search blogs for some kind of information that can help them catch criminals.