Comments on: Blogger Arrested?

By: K FLYER

K FLYER — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:24:53 +0000

Well Indi, you know it is the Emergency Law. They can arrest you even for this post.

By: The arrest of the ‘blogger’ in Sri Lanka: Crowd-sourcing trumps traditional media follow up « ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:44:22 +0000

[...] by the Daily Mirror on this incident. Bloggers, justifiably alarmed, wrote many posts such as this one by Indi Samarajiva, to find out more information on the incident. And it’s on comment threads on these posts, [...]

By: One who knows

One who knows — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:52:27 +0000

Apperantly it’s not related to blogging.
http://webalochana.blogspot.com/2009/11/arrested-blogger-update.html

By: Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: Blogger Arrested?

Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: Blogger Arrested? — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:35:47 +0000

[...] wonders about the authenticity of a news report that a netizen named Gayan Rajapakse was arrested in Sri [...]

By: indi

indi — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:10:43 +0000

Apparently someone at CID said he was pretending to be a Rajapakse relative or something, but they said nothing in response to the actual charges of threatening. I still don’t get it.

By: Ahamed Nizar

Ahamed Nizar — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:23:20 +0000

I blog with my real name and i’m not afraid to do so. I write on poliics and what not. But that still doesn’t give any party the right to beat me up and throw me in jail. Ask me politely to take the post down with a decent reason and maybe I will ;)

By: Dappi Sira

Dappi Sira — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:40:13 +0000

Agree with M. As they say, ” coming colors NO good, no!” Get the goddamn TOR. That is the best so far, as I know. It uses SSH — Tcp/Ip frames wrapped in secure shell protocol and uses a randomly selected intermediate server.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to use TOR. Just download the TOR+FireFox bundle from the address bellow, unzip & use it . It is that simple. It is per-configured, for firefox.

http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/

By: biji

biji — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:21:25 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Ninjacloak doesn’t let me post comments when I browse through them so was wondering how to get around all of this.
Absolutely agree. Just as one doesn’t wander around Beijing with a “free tibet” t-shirt on, being a public blogger (unless you say very nice things about certain gentlemen) is not wise. We are living in a fascist police state, I think a lot of the younger people really don’t realise this yet but things have changed. Very much so.

By: M

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:30:23 +0000

If he threatened MR or GR then I guess he was asking for it. But when you think who would be lying in this instant, most probably it’s MR, not some teenager from Matale. It’s sad to see how MR is violating the freedom of speech and arresting people for expressing ideas.

On my second point I can’t believe how many people blog with their real identity. If you are blogging about technology, cars or a hobby that’s fine, but to blog about controversial topics like war, politics, religion it’s plain stupid. Given the situation in SL you could be bullied, arrested, beaten or killed. Aside from that fact most of these blogger (Specially in SBU) are still in school or in university. Did they stop to think how they would look like when 4-5 years down the road when potential employees google their name? Do they want to be associated with the same views at that time. What if your view on the world change? now you look at things in a different angel and but you can’t run away from the past. remember internet is PERMANENT…

On a side note if you are in SL and want to maintain the anonymity use a proxy server outside of the country with an encrypted connection. Even for this comment I’m using Vidalia a nicely packaged version of Tor.