The 'blogosphere' may be be a virtual community, but the social connections it creates are very, very real. These connections cross boundries: political, cultural, linguistic, + + +... In a very real sense, the blogosphere transends these boundries and makes them irrelevant. This threatens all those who would control their populace, forcing them to adhere to only one ideology (regardless of what the particular ideology may be), limiting them to access only those opinions approved by these rulers. Yet, like Pandora's box, once the lid was opened and people realized the vast possibililties the blogosphere presented, closing the blogs down, or filtering them, was not enough to slam the lid back down. Those who would control now had to 'neutralize' those who had peeked in... Thus, many opressors are going after bloggers...
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