Only a matter of time really.
We've had Blears and others harping on about, well, us for ages now because of one thing:
They cannot control us
In case you missed it Baroness Buscombe, Chair of the utterly pathetic, shambolic and possibly most useless body on Earth, the PCC has called on the regulation of bloggers. The phrase lalaland springs to mind. The reasoning for this daft cow's argument is simply superb:
Some of the bloggers are now creating their own ecosystems which are quite sophisticated. Is the reader of those blogs assuming that it's news, and is [the blogosphere] the new newspapers? It's a very interesting area and quite challenging.
Yup, you readers are so fucking stupid that you need the PCC to help you understand. As a moron you clearly can't separate fact from opinion (to be fair, some don't have that capacity) and therefore you need a body to regulate and control us bloggers, just in case we tell you something, god forbid, isn't true.
Then, when I say a naughty word, or even express a view about a a group of people or the fucking weather you can lodge a complaint to Baroness Dickwad and get me censored.
Not on my watch.
The PCC are totally in league with the media as is well documented (censor) and this all stems, in my opinion (don't take this as fact and true, like you would the BBC...) from the print media shitting themselves over the blogging world. They hate it.
The news feed site, NewsNow is currently up to its neck in threats because it dares to post links to media sites that you then get directed to when clicked. Otherwise known as massive traffic driving. But the leading papers are threatening legal action over this because it is a source, no matter the benefit, they cannot control.
They want the web to be like the high street. They want restricted access and controlled outlets. That is the total opposite of what the web and blogging in particular are about. Blog, weblog, an online diary. A diary, the views and opinions of a person or persons. Granted some of these sites are basically full time professional hacks that are under the radar, but is what it's all about.
If you want to protest about this you can sign a letter over at Liberal Conspiracy, or simply write to your MP, the DCMS and the PCC.
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Guido has debunked this (after I did a write up, bugger,) as a misquote from the newspaper concerned. But as one of the commentators on Guido's blog says, "I wouldn't trust a F***ing word coming out of their mouths." And nor would I.
"...possibly most useless body on Earth..."
Now that's a heavily contested title. Perhaps it might be fun for you to do a series of profiles of the contenders? For my money, the UN Security Council is hard to beat.
That is a good idea Mr Payne. Like you say the group stages for that title alone would be action filled.
The ASA are up there, utterly fucking useless. And of course you'd have to have the IOC in there, the most corrupt body in world sport.
Yin, if it's a misquote I'm struggling to see any clarification coming out.
My millions of readers would be bereft without their daily dose of my insightful and witty posts...they would never stand for it and the guvmint would have to back down...so dont worry eh!
I do like a nice after guvmint Mr Stan.
Just as long as its not an extra strong guvmint.
(please stop - ed)
I started this lark when Blears was talking about stopping anonymous blogging - if she was planning such a thing, I wanted to be one more obstacle.
It's the usual Labour trick of floating a policy, letting the furore die down, and then going for it properly with all objections covered or silenced.
No matter what Guido says, this is snide hint number 2, and oddly enough, very close to a year since Blears' attack (on November 4th 2008, I believe). The policy is being tweaked (and it probably doesn't matter which party is in power, they'd both love to close the blogosphere down) and will reveal itself in due course. Probably sooner rhather than later.
So I'll carry on for now. When they come for the bloggers, I aim to be as fucking stubborn and disruptive as is within my power/budget.
Google Tor (the Onion Router). Anonymity is easy. All you've got to do is find an anonymous payment method (or a free blog host). Not rocket science.
Oh, I do so like a guvmint to round off a good meal (or to hide the breath-stink in the morning - beats napalm).
This guvmint is hard on the outside but soft and gooey in the middle.
Thomas Erskine
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.
That's fucking deep man.
I used to have a pair of Erskine shoes, very nice.
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