Standing up for other people's rights, says El Sherif, has had its consequences: Due to the preemptive role that bloggers play to fight, or expose corruption, government bodies and security forces took special interest in blogs and bloggers who went as far as attending the court hearings that deal with such issues. Today a blogger's word or the word blogger is under the spotlight when there was a time that no one even heard of blogging; today you can easily read a sign that says "Journalists and bloggers are not welcome".