Via ARS Technica
By John Timmer | Published: September 18, 2008 – 09:45PM CT
The US court system may still be trying to sort out how many of the legal protections offered to the press apply to bloggers, but many countries are leaving little doubt that their laws do indeed apply to bloggers. Unfortunately, these tend to be the countries with significant legal restrictions on the press. A couple of bloggers have found themselves faced with prison sentences recently, although the news wasn’t entirely bleak, as a Moroccan writer had his sentence quashed on appeal.
