Power To The People

It can be very dangerous to be a blogger in the Islamic world. In most Arab countries, anyone found to be blogging about secularism, atheism, or free thinking is likely to get in very big trouble. Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Iran, are all very intolerant of non conformist internet speech. In China one can say just about anything about any religion on the internet, but heaven help anyone who criticizes the government and is found out, with blog linked to warm.Repressive government generlaly are very quick to limit or curtail freedom of speech, but this is very difficult to do on the internet, which is why the internet is perhaps the greates tool for subversions and civil disobedience ever invented, a great potential threat to authoritarian governments. You might even expect all authoritarian governments to be brought down by the intent, eventually. You might even expect that eventually, an online organization of the world's poor people would form, and growing like kudzu, engulf the world, organize, and deprive the wealthy of their property. One just never knows. For the wealthy to remain wealthy would be much more tolerable if everyone, rich or poor, had equal political power, such as, one person, one vote. such as in a true democracy. Alas, such is not the case. Money buys political power, like a billionaire buying a political candidate. True democracy can never exist with enormous economic inequality.