Japans Political Rules Impact Bloggers

August 19th, 2009

On Tuesday, 1,370 Japanese stopped blogging and Twittering. Theres perhaps nothing unusual about that; after all, hundreds give up social media efforts every day. But for these people the halt to their online activities has been brought on by the law.br / br / No, they have not done anything wrong. But they are candidates in Japans upcoming national election, and with the official 12-day campaigning window now underway, online communication is off-limits.br / br / a href=http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090818/tc_pcworld/thedaythebloggingstopped target=_blank complete article/a

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