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Free Speech And WebLogs

Posted by Hemos on Friday December 20, 2002 @07:12AM from the watching-what-you-saw dept.

welloy writes "The WashingtonPost has an article regarding free speech and web logs. Its focus is on how web logs are governed by the same laws/rules of standard print journalism. The header quote: "Bloggers" surprised by legal limits on Web journals."

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Re:Duh! by eyegor · 2002-12-20 07:18 · Score: 4, Informative

Ever hear of web server access logs? Most ISPs also keep track of who has what IP when. Unless you limit yourself to editing your blog from the public library or from open WiFi access points, "the man" can find you and squash you when "they" feel it's appropriate.

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Nonsense. by kevlar · 2002-12-20 07:47 · Score: 5, Informative

This article has nothing to do with Free Speech. You can say whatever the hell you want so long as you do not bind yourself legally not to. In this case, he violated a non-disclosure agreement. This has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech.