Although Egypt and Tunisia have both detained bloggers Ethiopia became the first African country to put blocks on the blogosphere by blocking blogspot blogs.
Weichegud!ET Politics makes a link with China’s relationship with Ethiopia
What makes bloggers, a tempremental bunch, from all over the world go into collective convulsions? The stench of a government … with close ties to China, a so called “ally in the war against terrorism’… pawing at the Fifth Estate that is the Blogosphere. And whose duty is it to tell all these bloggers what’s going on?
The question is given China’s policy on censorship of the blogosphere and it’s record of detaining bloggers (Free Hao Wu for exampe) without charges – will they be including lessons on internet censorship as part of their buy up Africa project?
It could be that African governments are only just waking up to the blogosphere as the number of blogs and readers increase exponentially – who will be next on the list?
