4/05/2007
Blogers Behind Bars!...
Blogers every where are being arrested…. It’s a global issue now
I have came across some disturbing stories online …Seems some were accused of threatening the national security like what happened to two Iranian chaps , moreover their blogs were deleted ..and a French man was accused of criticizing his home town governor as a result he was threatened and then arrested but again set free!….and in china people are getting arrested right middle and centre …a good example is a biologist who got arrested for his bold views on his government policies in his blog .
Coming to our Arabic fellows the situation is not better in Egypt a bloger was arrested along with his wife ..because of his frank opinions of the president policies in his blogs.
Furthermore I have noticed that some blogers that I liked.. suddenly disappeared along with their blogs!
Like the highly talented nameless , whom I assume was an Omani girl ,apparently she deleted her 2 blogs after publishing a controversial article of a couple she witnessed beating up an Indian woman and her spouse here in Muscat!, the episode happened in the beach over a dog that the couple owned !.... While others simply vanished like the saudi bloger farooha who had very bold views in a very sarcastic way about her home town and there are some others like tranquility and sweetest taboo and more
Although I don’t have any idea of why did they delete their blogs nevertheless the sudden disappearance of their blogs does raise an eyebrow!..
So far I haven’t heard of any bloger being arrested here in Oman…..however there is one rare episode that seems the first around here !…about a certain forum called (a’sabla ) that was forced to shut down and it’s founder along with some of the members were brought to justice because they have criticized and verbally attacked some people among them were some officials who work in some government sectors…and I always thought that we Omani are generally more careful when we deal with political issues publicly or when it comes on displaying our personal thoughts/views on line!
I am pro freedom of speech and I truly believe that everyone has the right to express their opinion about certain issues of interest …we all have the right to criticize in a constructive way …however I also believe that no one has the right to slander anyone else’s name because of some personal issues, or because of some hidden agendas they have.
If anyone has any issues to settle with a person he/she can always take the matters to the court, but scandalizing the person name and calling him/her names by hiding behind a PC thinking that they can get away with it is such a cowardly act and it should not be passed unpunished. If this act was to be allowed then anyone can write anything about anyone else..and anyone can accuse anyone else of anything….hence the world will be a total chaos!
The problem is that some people can’t distinguish between their right of having freedom of speech, and when they are stepping on some one else’s right by attacking them verbally without any evidence, or in a more serious notion using abusive language….There is a thin line between stating the facts and being prejudice for some personal reasons
I have came across some disturbing stories online …Seems some were accused of threatening the national security like what happened to two Iranian chaps , moreover their blogs were deleted ..and a French man was accused of criticizing his home town governor as a result he was threatened and then arrested but again set free!….and in china people are getting arrested right middle and centre …a good example is a biologist who got arrested for his bold views on his government policies in his blog .
Coming to our Arabic fellows the situation is not better in Egypt a bloger was arrested along with his wife ..because of his frank opinions of the president policies in his blogs.
Furthermore I have noticed that some blogers that I liked.. suddenly disappeared along with their blogs!
Like the highly talented nameless , whom I assume was an Omani girl ,apparently she deleted her 2 blogs after publishing a controversial article of a couple she witnessed beating up an Indian woman and her spouse here in Muscat!, the episode happened in the beach over a dog that the couple owned !.... While others simply vanished like the saudi bloger farooha who had very bold views in a very sarcastic way about her home town and there are some others like tranquility and sweetest taboo and more
Although I don’t have any idea of why did they delete their blogs nevertheless the sudden disappearance of their blogs does raise an eyebrow!..
So far I haven’t heard of any bloger being arrested here in Oman…..however there is one rare episode that seems the first around here !…about a certain forum called (a’sabla ) that was forced to shut down and it’s founder along with some of the members were brought to justice because they have criticized and verbally attacked some people among them were some officials who work in some government sectors…and I always thought that we Omani are generally more careful when we deal with political issues publicly or when it comes on displaying our personal thoughts/views on line!
I am pro freedom of speech and I truly believe that everyone has the right to express their opinion about certain issues of interest …we all have the right to criticize in a constructive way …however I also believe that no one has the right to slander anyone else’s name because of some personal issues, or because of some hidden agendas they have.
If anyone has any issues to settle with a person he/she can always take the matters to the court, but scandalizing the person name and calling him/her names by hiding behind a PC thinking that they can get away with it is such a cowardly act and it should not be passed unpunished. If this act was to be allowed then anyone can write anything about anyone else..and anyone can accuse anyone else of anything….hence the world will be a total chaos!
The problem is that some people can’t distinguish between their right of having freedom of speech, and when they are stepping on some one else’s right by attacking them verbally without any evidence, or in a more serious notion using abusive language….There is a thin line between stating the facts and being prejudice for some personal reasons
posted by -Maha-,
4:01 PM
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