Blogger Code Criticized

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TORONTO — A proposed code of conduct meant to establish online civility is being met with criticism as debate surges over how best to handle vitriolic incidents such as one that recently shut down a prominent blogger.

Web observers say the disturbing attack against tech writer Kathy Sierra could inspire a chill among some writers and has already fuelled a crackdown by a growing number of bloggers keen to weed out comments deemed inappropriate from their web pages.


The bloggosphere must be anonymous. The best you can do , and should do , is make sure that a particular pseudoname has a reputation behind it, much like in an online game where a charactar has been around for years and is going to guard his reputation because starting over is such a pain.

The reason the bloggosphere must be anonymous is simply because there is no world governments. There are a hundred or so governments and they don't cooperate, so anyone in the world can send anyone in the world death threats, even hire thugs for a few hundred bucks and send them after you , and never leave their home and never get in trouble for it.

The bloogosphere can only be legislated when the real world that lies underneath it is legislated and these people can no longer act with imputy simply because they're in some other country who's laws protect them from recriminations. Talk of polite manners is nice, but if some super rich sheik in saudi arabia decides you're an infidel and starts looking for people to bribe to send to your front door step and beat the will of Allah into you with baseball bats...well...it's not gonna work out too well for you.

Anonymous blogging is here to stay, for as long as there are places in the real world where rich , opinionated people can do as they please without regard of the consequences.