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Not to brag as much as give thanks:  it's nice to live in a place where you won't go to jail for having something to say. "Cyber-dissident" Zhang Jianhong (pen name, Li Hong) can go to jail for it, and is, for six years. We can also be thankful phrases like "reeducation-through-work camp for counter-revolutionary propaganda" still sound to us like something out of a George Orwell fantasy.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has issued a statement claiming Yahoo was complicit in the jailing of Chinese journalist Jiang Lijun, sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 over pro-democracy articles he wrote.

Libya sent a political dissident blogger up the river for 18 months after criticizing the government on the Internet. The Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported this as they posted a letter from the blogger's family requesting the release of the dissident.

Judith Miller gets incarcerated for a story she never wrote about the disclosure of CIA employee Valerie Plame's identity to the media.

Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, was sentenced to 18 months in U.S. District Court in Seattle for creating and distributing the a variant of the infamous Blaster worm.