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And another one
By Wolfie | April 30, 2008
After my post the other day about being requested to remove a post, I realise today from reading this story that perhaps I got off lightly. A blogger has been fined £150 and ordered to pay £364 costs for a blog post in which he “let off steam” about his treatment at the hands of the police and supposedly made comments that “any reasonable” person would find “menacing”.
The news article gives one quote from the post which seems to have been the line this whole thing hinged on, but it doesn’t seem particularly menacing to me. Unclearly written, perhaps, for the point he was trying to make but not menacing. Sadly, the post in question has been removed so I can’t go and check out the rest of it to see if, as claimed, “the context of the whole blog” makes that line more menacing or not.
What we seem to be moving towards though with this case and others is a that, far from being a place where you can have your say about the world around you, a blog is becoming a place where you have to make sure that you are towing the party line. Woe betide you if you cross that line.
Categories: Blogging, Rant-O-Meter |
Tags: Freedom of Speech
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