Egypt: Bad Boys Who do not Moderate Blog Comments  · Global Voices
Marwa Rakha

After learning that blogging is a serious crime in Egypt and that speaking up for others is something that warrants punishment, state security officials are now arresting bloggers who do not moderate comments on their blog posts!
Khaled El Balshy, Editor in Chief of Al Badeel Newspaper, has recently been subpoenaed by State Security and charged of slander because he did not delete a “bad” comment that was left on one of his blog posts  dating back to 2007.
Dr. Mostafa El Naggar is against gagging bloggers:
Dr. El Naggar stated his worst nightmare:
Omar El Hady blogged the incident quoting Khaled El Balshy himself:
He also mentioned that this incident is not the first of its kind:
Azza Moghazy understands the fact that print media organizations including their editors and contributing writers self censor their articles and moderate reader responses to avoid legal liability but she refuses to apply print media laws to cyber space: