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So Much To Blog, So Little Time ...
Sometimes I can sit here for hours and wrack my brain for something, anything to write about. Other times it’s hard to pick out what to share with you from all the things I want to say.
Whichever sort of day it is I can freely decide and the only censorship I’m subject to is the self-censorship I choose to apply to myself.
I’m really lucky to be able to do that, free to blog. Hu Jia isn’t that lucky and today faces trial for blogging critically about the Chinese government. For doing what I’m doing now he could face five years in jail.
Bloggers are an odd lot. Some write openly about their lives and share their every thought, some just want to tell the world about their favourite puddle.
Whatever they do I like to think today we are thankful we can do it freely and spare a thought for Hu Jia and his wife Zeng Jinyan today.
There is a series of documentaries about them on YouTube, a report on the trial from The Guardian and the view from Human Rights Watch.
