Green Energy
(With a hat-tip to Cube)
Freedom of speech: Use it or lose it.
Freedom of speech: Use it or lose the war of ideas.
From this article in the Christian Science Monitor:
- Bloggers And The Law
(With a hat-tip to Raven, who emailed me the link below) Better watch your backs, fellow bloggers. Excerpt from this July 15, 2008 article in the New York Times: ...A grand jury subpoena sent by prosecutors in the Bronx earlier this year sought information...
- Ap Makes Us An Offer We Can't Refuse
Get a load of this: The AP’s disharmony with bloggers may have only just begun, as the alternative it’s now offering to being served with takedown notices involves paying an up-front sum for excerpting online articles — as few as five words. A...
- Exit The Editrix
I guess my disenchantment with blogging is obvious for some time now. During the last weeks I went through an intense thought process. It started with a campaign in the mainstream media here in Germany against Islam-critical blogs and specifically against...
- Calling All Infidels - The "this Is How It Was, 2006" Series
One of my frustrations with how history is taught is that we are often inundated with dates and names, and not actually told how things felt at the time. We are at a turning point in history now. Iran is threatening (though obliquely) to use nuclear weapons...
- An Infidel Announcement
We have added two Malaysian bloggers, MaoBi the Anti-Jihadist, within the past few days. This brings the total number of Infidel bloggers to 18, with contributors hailing from Italy, Spain, England, Malaysia, and the United States. I would like to add...
Green Energy
Insurance For Bloggers?
(With a hat-tip to Cube)Freedom of speech: Use it or lose it.
Freedom of speech: Use it or lose the war of ideas.
From this article in the Christian Science Monitor:
...“We’re coming up with a product that covers defamation, copyright, privacy violations – the same protections as newspapers – for bloggers,” says the group’s Mr. Cox. [Media Bloggers Association] members will receive a hefty discount on the insurance package, due to be launched at the end of this month. The cheapest coverage for a solo blogger will be $540 a year....Why would bloggers need insurance? According to the article:
The blogging community increasingly is subject to lawsuits and threats of legal action running the gamut from subpoenas to cease-and-desist notices. Since blogging became popular in about 2004, there have been 159 civil and criminal court actions involving bloggers, according to the nonprofit Media Law Resource Center (MLRC) in New York. Seven cases have resulted in verdicts against bloggers, with cumulative penalties totaling $18.5 million. Many more legal actions never result in trial.In the United States, of course, we have a broad definition of freedom of speech:
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Bloggers faced with legal threats often deem it easier to remove potentially offensive content rather than undertake the difficulty and expense of defending themselves...
Bloggers face much bigger threats overseas, particularly if they criticize governments or point to human rights abuses.The article begins with an anecdote as to how a personal comment left on a blog led to litigation. Read the entire article HERE.
Since 2003, 64 bloggers have been arrested around the world – with Egypt, China, and Iran initiating more than half of those arrests, according to the World Information Access Report, published last month by the University of Washington. By contrast, the United States has arrested two in that period.
Still, online commentators face risks in the United States.
“In the developed world, bloggers can be punished through lawsuits,” writes Philip Howard, a communications professor at the University of Washington, in an e-mail.
The number of lawsuits is growing, says Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association (MBA), a US-based group devoted to protecting citizen journalists. “As blogging expands and more people are aware of it, the lawyers are not far behind.”
- Bloggers And The Law
(With a hat-tip to Raven, who emailed me the link below) Better watch your backs, fellow bloggers. Excerpt from this July 15, 2008 article in the New York Times: ...A grand jury subpoena sent by prosecutors in the Bronx earlier this year sought information...
- Ap Makes Us An Offer We Can't Refuse
Get a load of this: The AP’s disharmony with bloggers may have only just begun, as the alternative it’s now offering to being served with takedown notices involves paying an up-front sum for excerpting online articles — as few as five words. A...
- Exit The Editrix
I guess my disenchantment with blogging is obvious for some time now. During the last weeks I went through an intense thought process. It started with a campaign in the mainstream media here in Germany against Islam-critical blogs and specifically against...
- Calling All Infidels - The "this Is How It Was, 2006" Series
One of my frustrations with how history is taught is that we are often inundated with dates and names, and not actually told how things felt at the time. We are at a turning point in history now. Iran is threatening (though obliquely) to use nuclear weapons...
- An Infidel Announcement
We have added two Malaysian bloggers, MaoBi the Anti-Jihadist, within the past few days. This brings the total number of Infidel bloggers to 18, with contributors hailing from Italy, Spain, England, Malaysia, and the United States. I would like to add...