In Hong Kong Bloggers post hopes for change

There was a time, around the last century, when news travelled slowly. It needed to be transmitted via letters, newspapers, or, how revolutionary, telephones. So it took a while until news about protests leaked through to other countries or even regions.

Things started to change towards the end of that century and some dangerous tendencies cropped up in a new media called Internet - blogs.

Blogs become increasingly powerful - and now are used to post about from personal affairs to political incidences.

In Hong Kong, this let to the posting of videos about protests in respectie posts:

"Two years ago, when more than 500,000 people flooded the streets in Central to protest against controversial Article 23 anti-sedition legislation, Yan Sham-Shackleton stood on a pedestrian overpass documenting it with her video camera.

At 5am, she had started writing Internet essays about Hong Kong's struggle for democracy.

A few hours after she went to bed, ``I woke up and went to the protest,`` she says. ``I took a lot of video. And cried a bit.''

Quite a nice article, just in case you are interested. The question is: Will China look on only and simply tolerate?

(By Asia Business Consulting)