November 29, 2006
As Mike Masnick notes, the story seemed just a little too real, and for that moment, I wondered: they wouldn’t – would they?The second I missed by a country mile…. But there’s more – “Former Downing Street spin doctor Alastair Campbell, who chaired the session organised by the Commission for Racial Equality, said blogs were “perceived as a positive development” but added that “some of the most offensive stuff” comes from them.”… Months ago, in a roundtable I chaired on net libel, I wondered out loud whether even defamation laws were really as necessary in an age when anyone could have their own soapbox, and use it to respond to false statements. As Scoble notes, the redress (that the PCC thinks one gets from a complaints process) is to – wait for it – respond on your own blog.
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November 29, 2006
If you’re an Iraq-watcher, then you already know that the commentating and political classes in the U.S. are shifting blame for the Iraq civil war on to the Iraqis. This is a how-to lesson in absolving yourself of responsibility for something you very much wish you hadn’t done, but don’t have the courage to admit […]
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