Reading BBC News’ acticle – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6540385.stm – about a proposed Code of Conduct for blogging.
Is it me or is this soft censoring through the back door? In it, it proposes that annoymous comments should not be allowed. I don’t see how this is significant – anyone can create a random email account so this is defunct out of the hat right away.
It proposed that blogs containing offensive materials (I’m talking about swear words not porn) to contain a public health warning. Well, tickle me sideways with a hedgehog! The internet should be a free, open platform and people need to have a thick skin in browsing the web as it depicts wildy different attitudes and cultures. If you are easily offended or worried about your unsupervised kids, what are you or your unsupervised kids doing on the internet in the first place?
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This resulted from Kathy Sierra’s treatment. Basically bloggers and her commenters threatened to kill her. Someone posted a photo online with a noose around her neck. The police got involved. She has since withdrawn from blogging, pulled out of Etech and was too afraid to leave her own home. Not only this, the Scobles got some bad treatment too.
The problem with living public lives, it opens you for attack. We all have our trolls, but things have got pretty nasty out there. However, I took one look at the code (its been on a few blogs in the last day or two), and I’m not sure whether I could adhere to it.
There is a difference between free speech (which I am all for) and social or moral responsibility. By that, I don’t mean restricting what people say, just a fair treatment to others. If you wouldn’t say it to someone’s face, should you be saying it online?
This resulted from Kathy Sierra’s treatment. Basically bloggers and her commenters threatened to kill her. Someone posted a photo online with a noose around her neck. The police got involved. She has since withdrawn from blogging, pulled out of Etech and was too afraid to leave her own home. Not only this, the Scobles got some bad treatment too.
The problem with living public lives, it opens you for attack. We all have our trolls, but things have got pretty nasty out there. However, I took one look at the code (its been on a few blogs in the last day or two), and I’m not sure whether I could adhere to it.
There is a difference between free speech (which I am all for) and social or moral responsibility. By that, I don’t mean restricting what people say, just a fair treatment to others. If you wouldn’t say it to someone’s face, should you be saying it online?
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