WATCHDOG GROUP SHOWS BLOGGERS HOW TO COUNTER CENSORSHIP

FRENCH MEDIA WATCHDOG GROUP SHOWS BLOGGERS HOW TO COUNTER CENSORSHIP...GOAL TO ENCOURAGE FREEDOM OF PRESS.... 

Reporters Withough Borders is an association officially recognized as serving the public interest (according to the www.RSF.org website. That site goes on to say that "more than 1/3 of the world's people live in countries where there is no press freedom.  The site says, 42 media professionals lost their lives in 2003 for doing what they were paid to do --keeping us informed. The site says, taht today, more than 130 journalists around the world are in prison for 'simply doing their job.'

(EXCERPTED FROM THE REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS WEBSITE)www.rsf.org ) Here is an excerpt from Reuters coverage of REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS new handbook from an article by Timothy Heritage, datelined Paris (Reuters) and going on to say, "A Paris-based media watchdog released a handbook on Thursday to help cyber-dissidents and bloggers avoid political censorship in countries as far apart as Chinga, Iran, Vietnam and Cuba. BLOGGER JOYCE SCHWARZ COMMENTS: Technology may soon make it impossible to block bloggers and/or podcasts, video conference calling and more....blogger Joyce Schwarz noted in a previous Hollywood2020 blog post that the same week that info on China's censorship on more than 1000 words reached the press, video conference calls from Cyber Cafes in China were still reaching the USA. That same week, personal pals of Schwarz were using SKYPE (VOIP voice over Internet protocol) to talk directly to friends and colleagues throughout China). Take a look at the power of video in this previous Hollywood2020 post: One Picture Worth 1000 Words, One Video Worth 1 million words? : The list of banned words at 1041 is just 41 words more than the famous saying, "One Picture worth 1000 Words" which is increasingly being upgraded to the phrase "one video worth 1 million words". So I did a quick google search for "China blogs" and quickly came up with this link videoconf_ from a blog by Chris Enway, a Rhode Island resident pursuing a PhD. Enway's blog ironically themed " my journal; not very interesting lately" So here's the screengrab of his videoconference with his pal Michael (I dug deeper and found Michael was an intern to Tom Brokaw at NBC on September 11, 2001)who appears to have had no problem going into a Beijing web-cam equipped cybercafe to videoconference with USA on February 3, 2005. Thanks to both Michael and Chris for helping me make my point that nothing can ban the next-generation of communication for 93 Billion people forever. videoconf with michael in beijing (courtesy link to Chris Enway's blog) " my friend michael's in china, just having recently arrived in beijing en route to teaching english in crazy-desert western china (xinjiang).I've ibeen keeping odd hours lately, and by chance caught him online in a webcam-equipped beijing cybercafe, producing this neat screenshot of videoconferencing with michael in beijing! Thanks to both Michael and Chris for helping me make my point that nothing can ban the next-generation of communication anywhere forever.