http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4271062.stm
Summary:
Blog censorship handbook released A handbook that offers advice to bloggers who want to protect themselves from recrimination and censors has been released by Reporters Without Borders.
The handbook was part-funded by the French government.
"Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure," Reporters Without Borders said on its website.
Included in the booklet, called The Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents, is advice about how to blog anonymously, as well as how to identify the most suitable way to circumvent censorship.
Technorati, a blog search engine, tracks more than 17 million blogs globally.
Blogs can be anything from personal diaries, to technology news, and political comment.
Iranian authorities have been clamping down on mainstream media for some time, but it has recently turned its attention to cyber-dissidents and bloggers.
Campaign groups say at least two dozen Iranian bloggers have been jailed as a result of the clamp-down.
In June, Microsoft's MSN Spaces site in China started to block blog entries which used words such as "freedom", "democracy" and "demonstration".
Microsoft said the company abided by the laws, regulations and norms of each country in which it operates.
China recently introduced regulations that required all blog owners to register their sites with the state by 30 June.
And on Wednesday, two Chinese Singaporeans appeared in court charged with posting racist remarks about minority Malays on the net.
The blogger booklet can be downloaded from the Reporters Without Borders website in English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian.
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