So, you think you can blog?

WordPress says I can. My country’s constitution acknowledges the right of freedom of experssion, and a blog is part of this procedure. I’m not aware of some countries’ constitution (eg. Egypt, China) where bloggers or users of Yahoo mail are imprisoned because of their socio-political ideology, but that’s certainly a serious issue. So, let’s talk about the meaning of perception.

Politics and religion draw people’s interest and creat passionate reactions in many parts of the world. And reaction may also vary among people of the same country. Sometimes, it happens to us to criticize or even swear our national emblems, without any consequences in many parts of the world, but at the same time we hate the foreigners who do the same to us, with dramatic results sometimes. Or vice versa: We may be imprisoned for having harshly criticize eg. a political issue of ours, when it is delt the same way by foreigners, without consequences. Confusing world!

Moreover, can we all be so carefree and enthousiastic about the freedom that this modern invention of “cybergraphy” furnishes us? It’s common knowledge that the internet is under surveillance especially after the 11/9. What if a blogger satirizes or deliberately leaves threatening innuendos(even as a joke) for the U.S. external policy? Would that make him/her a suspect of a possible terroristic act? Is it possible that someone be forbidden to get a Visa for a country about which s/he expresses a negative opinion? I want to express such opinion about U.S., but I also want to get a Visa for it. I’m sure that someday we’ll be hired or fired because of our “blog views”. It has already happened, in a way, in the case of the Egyptian blogger, Kareem Amer, who has been imprisoned.

Have we become viewers of another sequel of the “trapped in the net” scenario? Nevertheless, even though thought can be trapped, it cannot be imprisoned.