It is not the porn or the gambling.

This is the answer to the question "Why the internet?"

BLOGGERS CHALLENGE CENSORS

From Spiegel International:
"Authoritarian states like China, Iran and Egypt are having trouble dealing with the burgeoning number of critical online diaries. These blogs, which multiply by the second, expose news about incidents that many regimes would prefer to keep hushed up. In many countries, blogs are giving people their first real taste of democracy." Click here
(Thanks to Laura Ingraham for the heads up.)