I live in a safe country where I can openly use blogging as a platform to offer challenges and critique of whatever I wish without fear of violent reprisal from a state authority. This is one of the things I love about democracy – the freedom to speak and voice one’s opinion.
Such safety is not the case for all bloggers. Not all bloggers can take it for granted that they can turn their computer on, write something and then sleep easily that night. There are bloggers in the world whose writing has very real human repercussions, including the safety of their own lives. One of the reasons I blog is to show my solidarity with them by engaging a medium that allows them a voice.
For us who live and speak in open democracies, it is easy to take a tool like blogging for granted and not properly understand its strength.
This post exists simply as a pledge of support for Iranian bloggers who use the tool of blogging to be heard:
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