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Pigie's message on China's shutting down blog services

A message from Pigie, a Journalism and Communication student from NUS.

" A news report is filed out by Reporters Without Borders (www.rsf.org), an international organization active in promoting press freedom. I think the report has kept "low profile" of this incidence, while still managed to get some form of international exposure over this shut down.

The report can be found at http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9545"

Thanks, Pigie. However, it's a pity that common Chinese users can't access this report since it's blocked by Great Firewall, too. Only savvy users can visit the site with proxy.

Although I'm the first one blogged on this incident in English, more guys including some expats in China resonated soon in the following days. Then Joi, Dave as well other famous bloggers also mentioned this incident in their popular blog, thus more people know the reason and develpment around the world.

Last Sat. I, along with other members in CNBlog.org(non-profit meta blog for Chinese), has hosted key members from the 3 main community-based blogging service providers(Blogbus, blogcn, and blogdriver) to discuss on solutions and future collaborations. We got consensus that blogging is not the real target this time, instead, Dr.Jiang's letter is the only destination. Some net police may never hear of Blog. Thus BB, BC are all sacrifice of this letter. Anyway, it's not the fault of this letter at all. The whole thing is worth thinking for a while, from human rights to emergent democracy.

Anyway, as I said for times on cnblog.org, only the distributed blogsphere can lead to the real digital democracy. The current centralized model can't survive any longer from both political and technology view. I will address in China's Digital Future conference and talk more details on this issue.