The new wave of citizen journalists are the heart and soul of what is taking place in the Middle East.
Citizen journalists have the ability to work around Government structures meant for censorship. A news organization’s IP address can be shut down by the Government, but someone with a cell phone calling a sat phone to a proxy server in California is exempt from these restrictions.
These citizen reporters bring a new tool for the media to cover an event, even if it’s broadcasted through the camera of a cell phone. In places like Syria, that don’t allow foreign correspondents inside their country it is a necessary weapon in the fight for freedom.
Censorship may be a driving force in still many places of the world, but as we have seen through the Arab Spring it is a diminishing force and may one day become limited to self censorship.
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