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Ahmadinejad is a Blogger, too

December 11, 2007 |

(Via NYTimes)

Looks like Iran’s president (you know, the one some people are very scared of, even if he doesn’t have a lot of actual power), is a blogger.

I won’t go into politics here, but could you imagine George Bush having a blog - with comments?

I don’t know how much of the writing on his blog the Iranian president actually does by himself (the NYTimes article doesn’t touch on that), but if he does write it himself (though I don’t assume he translates it himself), it does make some of our politicians here look like they are behind the times a little bit. Also, according to the NYTimes, the comments are not censored.

The irony of this, of course, is that many Iranian bloggers get censored every day:

There is a political irony to Mr. Ahmadinejad’s blogging, since other Iranian bloggers, including reporters who worked for news Web sites, came under more pressure after his election. Hundreds of Web sites and blogs that were critical of the government have been blocked. Censorship has been so wide that the president’s blog was once blocked mistakenly along with Google for a day.

Could you imagine a political campaign that isn’t whitewashed from front to end? Where debates are actually debates and not just people answering questions? Where politicians take the time to answer questions on their blogs?

Oh well, one can dream…


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