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Should You Blog Anonymously?
August 31, 2008 | 2 Comments
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Some people want to be read and not seen. These people choose to blog anonymously.
I would not recommend this from a business perspective as our goal is to create an online presence with name recognition and build a loyal readership, build a subscription list and warm up our prospects for future business propositions and sales.
Personally, I always attach my name to everything that I write online, but there are instances when anonymity becomes a necessity.
For instance, corporate whistleblowers and political dissidents living under oppressive regimes have a right to be heard without getting fired, imprisoned or even killed!
2000, Zouhair Yahyaoui.
Take the case of a young internet journalist from Tunisia, Zouhair Yahyaoui. This journalist wrote an entry on his popular blog TUNeZINE asking the readers to voice an opinion. He asked them to vote on whether Tunisia was a “republic, a kingdom, a zoo or a prison.”
To us, this would seem a rather silly, but permissible display of the freedoms of speech and ability to express one’s opinions. Something we have all become quite accustomed to in this country. Unfortunately for Zouhair it was not so.
Soon after, he was arrested by six Tunisian secret police and dragged away from a local cybercafe. he was held without charges and tortured until he revealed his blog password. Then his blog was removed from the internet and he was held in a prison under appalling conditions until his death in 2005.
That would be a perfect example for the need to blog anonymously.
BlogSafer (anoniblog.pbwiki.com) is a guide for blogging in countries that have little to no freedom of speech. Countries like Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia, Zimbabwe and others where others live in fear that the same thing can happen to them that happened to this young journalist in Tunisia.
Let’ be grateful we live in a country that, until further notice, allows us the freedom to write and to voice our opinions openly without the risk of loss of life and limb.. (Watch the video, we may not be as comfy as we believe ourselves to be..)
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