Merinews.com, 13 Apr 2009
THE INTERNET has opened up many possibilities by allowing people to connect to various causes and mobilise public opinion. Nonetheless, the so-called liberation it had come to represent through blogs and online networking sites has brought into light the controversy revolving around freedom of speech and expression.
The growing reach of the Internet, as a platform for those whose voices had been suppressed for whatever reasons, be it their authoritarian regimes or their own introverted nature, was lauded. Since the early 2000s, net users got a chance to let the whole Internet-savvy crowd be privy to their views and feelings with web logs or 'blogs' as popularly referred to.
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