Free Speech And WebLogs

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."

Comments

Duh!

[Exmet Paff Daxx]

That's why it's so important to look at the legal concept of ownership. For instance, if you get free storage from a free hosting site, and you put, say, child porno on that site, do you own the child porno? No. So you can't get busted for posession. The trick is to keep stuff off of your computer and host it on someone else's computer.

Anyone hosting their own blog in their own name is confining themselves to boring content. What these people need to wise up to is that you should just make yourself a pseudonym, use no personally traceable information, and post your content on a site with an active legal team, like Slashdot's journal system.

Then it's someone else's problem, not yours, and there are no consequences.

Re:Duh!

[Exmet Paff Daxx]

It was just an example. Maybe you want to host some software which fights for freedom, like DeCSS, or valid criticism of Ford Motor Company - or maybe there's nothing wrong with what you're hosting, but you're scared because America's laws are crazy. Hell, maybe you just want to post some crazy rambling like this:

The head of the Galactic Confederation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 yrs ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet -- 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb on the principal volcanoes (Incident 2) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic Area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged." His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants. When through with his crime Loyal Officers (to the people) captured him after 6 years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confed.) has since been a desert.

you're a goddamned terrorist!

[SweetAndSourJesus]

What kind of country would we have if people were allowed to speak freely? This country wasn't founded by people who were interested in freedom from opression, you know.

If we let you speak your mind, the terrorists have already won.