Blogging Freedom

I originally posted this on my other blog, The Millionaire Blogger, but I wanted this post to reach as many people as possible. If you’re a blogging in a free nation, please consider blogging about this as well, and send me your link – I’ll add you to this post.

I forget, regularly, that I live in the United States.

That may not make sense, when you first read it, but the truth is that bloggers in the United States (and other free countries) forget that our voice stands unchallenged. Sure, we may be challenged by readers that don’t agree…but as a whole, no one says “You can’t say that on your blog.” No matter what your blog topic or who your readers are, a blog is an inner monologue put on the Internet for others to read.

Yet, today, Yahoo! News and other sources are reporting that Savva Terentyev, a blogger from Russia, is being charged for “inciting hatred toward authorities. In the post from February 2007, Terentyev wrote,

“It would be good if in the center of every town in Russia … an oven was built, like at Auschwitz, in which ceremonially, every day, and better yet, twice a day … the infidel cops were burnt. This would be the first step toward cleaning society of these cop-hoodlum scum.”

I don’t know if that’s true. I think that it probably has a ring of truth, but that it isn’t an absolute. However, this blogger, regardless of his nationality, she be able to voice his opinions. Otherwise, how do we grow as humanity?

I forget that there is oppression in the world. I forget, because I live in a free nation, that there are people who have to walk on eggshells or face prison or beatings or death…from their government.

So today, if you’re blogging in a free country, I ask you to blog about this. Anyone who does, send me your link.

It is a matter of human rights. Our government can control a lot of things in our lives, but they CANNOT control what we think, and it is by belief that we should be allowed to post what we think.