In fact, without such skills activism may turn out to be ineffective. Today activism and the use of written communication have become intertwined. If transmitted into writing, the enormous amount of information that becomes available daily on torture can be very effective tool in the fight to eliminate it. To allow acts of torture to be forgotten after perhaps a few days of protest is one of the reasons for the lack of success so far in the fight against torture. If every event had been properly recorded and used there would have been far greater social movements against torture that states would not be able to ignore.
Modern communication is no longer the patrimony of big companies.
Hopefully the greater use of this capacity available to individuals can be used in an Asia-wide campaign for the elimination of torture. The use of such private communication reduces hindrances associated with publications in the past. It cuts down costs enormously. It is also free from dependence on printed media controlled by owners and marketing agents and cannot be controlled by legal restrictions over the publication of printed matter. Even in times of censorship private media can be effectively used to counter the aims of censorship.