It appears odd until you look at the bills that have been rushed through parliament in recent weeks, which activists and journalists say could turn Tanzania into one of Africa's most repressive countries for freedom of speech.
Anonymity is a vital protection for freedom of speech in politically repressive regimes, and the role of the Internet in promoting this freedom is here to stay.
But it wasn't long before he started to find out what it meant to grow up in a repressive regime that frowns upon freedom of speech.
The Tory government now passed the repressive Six Acts to gag newspapers, prevent public meetings, and restrict freedom of speech.
While Carrington succeeded in keeping the state secure, his operatives also carried out arbitrary arrests, suppressed freedom of speech and freedom of association, and generally maintained a repressive control of the southern-sympathetic minority.
Their pressing task is to revise antiquated laws preventing freedom of speech, for instance, and restricting women that were devised during more repressive times to protect the interests of an entrenched clerical establishment.
According to Dr. Leopoldo Figueroa, a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, the law was repressive and was in violation of the First Amendment of the US Constitution which guarantees Freedom of Speech.
According to Dr. Leopoldo Figueroa, a member of the Partido Estadista Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Statehood Party) and the only non-member of PPD in the Puerto Rican House, the law was repressive and in direct violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech.
It's not a place where people under repressive governments are organizing but it's still important for it to be around because of freedom of speech.
Leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Bindman described the law as a "dangerous inroad on freedom of speech", claiming it could be used against people who resorted to violence against a repressive regime.
