Editing Blog (section)

===Political dangers===
{{see also|Political repression of cyber-dissidents}}
Blogging can sometimes have unforeseen consequences in politically sensitive areas. In some countries, [[Internet police]] or [[secret police]] may monitor blogs and arrest blog authors or commentators. Blogs can be much harder to control than broadcast or print media because a person can create a blog whose authorship is hard to trace by using anonymity technology such as [[Tor (network)|Tor]]. As a result, [[totalitarianism|totalitarian]] and [[authoritarianism|authoritarian]] regimes often seek to suppress blogs and punish those who maintain them.

In Singapore, two ethnic Chinese individuals were [[imprisoned]] under the country's [[Sedition Act (Singapore)|anti-sedition law]] for posting [[Islamophobia|anti-Muslim]] remarks in their blogs.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kierkegaard|first=Sylvia|author-link=Sylvia Kierkegaard|year=2006|doi=10.1016/j.clsr.2006.01.002|title=Blogs, lies and the doocing: The next hotbed of litigation?|journal=Computer Law & Security Report|volume=22|issue=2|page=127 |issn=0267-3649}}</ref> Egyptian blogger [[Kareem Amer]] was charged with insulting the Egyptian president [[Hosni Mubarak]] and an [[Islam]]ic [[Al-Azhar University|institution]] through his blog. It is the first time in the history of Egypt that a blogger was prosecuted. After a brief trial session that took place in [[Alexandria]], the blogger was found guilty and sentenced to prison terms of three years for insulting [[Islam]] and inciting sedition and one year for insulting Mubarak.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6385849.stm|title=Egypt blogger jailed for insult|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=February 22, 2007|access-date=June 5, 2008}}</ref> Egyptian blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud was arrested in April 2007 for anti-government writings in his blog. Monem is a member of the then banned [[Muslim Brotherhood]]. After the [[2011 Egyptian revolution]], the Egyptian blogger [[Maikel Nabil Sanad]] was charged with insulting the military for an article he wrote on his personal blog and sentenced to three years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/hunger-strike-egyptian-pr_n_963916.html |title=Maikel Nabil Sanad, On Hunger Strike in Egypt, Is Dying |work=HuffPost |date= September 15, 2011|access-date=December 29, 2011 |first=Saki |last=Knafo}}</ref>

After expressing opinions in his personal blog about the state of the Sudanese armed forces, [[Jan Pronk]], United Nations Special Representative for [[Sudan]], was given three days notice to leave Sudan. The Sudanese army had demanded his deportation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/10/22/sudan.darfur.un/index.html|title=Sudan expels U.N. envoy for blog|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=October 22, 2006|access-date=March 14, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = UN envoy leaves after Sudan row | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6076022.stm | work = BBC News | publisher = BBC | date = October 23, 2006 | access-date = October 24, 2006}}</ref> In [[Myanmar]], Nay Phone Latt, a blogger, was sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a cartoon critical of head of state [[Than Shwe]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7721271.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=Burma blogger jailed for 20 years | date=November 11, 2008 | access-date=March 26, 2010}}</ref>