Blog Censorship Gains Support
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Most Americans believe bloggers should not be allowed to publish sensitive personal information about individuals, according to a new survey.
Web hosting company Hostway this week released the results of its poll of 2,500 respondents on blogging. Eighty percent of respondents did not believe that bloggers should be allowed to publish home addresses and other personal information about private citizens.
A further 72 percent favored censorship of personal information about celebrities, and 68 percent information about elected or appointed government officials such as judges or mayors.
However, more than one-third of respondents had never heard of blogs before participating in the survey, and only around 30 percent of participants had actually visited a blog themselves.
This story reminds me of a slashdot entry on e-scrabble. It is irrelevant: If a country or a hosting company censors your celeb zoo porn blog, spare yourself trouble and host it elsewhere.
The web will never be censored.
[knock on wood]
Since when did 2,500 Hostway visitors represent the views of 293 million Americans?
To extrapolate ‘Most Americans’ from 2000 respondants is laughable!
None of this is any different from the laws concerning (and I should imagine peoples general opinion of) any other form of publishing.
It’s a non story backed by some dubious numbers!
I wouldn’t call that ‘censorship gaining support’. It’s bad enough c|net uses exaggerated shock-media titles for news entries; you don’t have to follow suit.
Wouldn’t blogging be boring if you could expose people & then proceed to make fun of them?! Seriously.
How many people would want others to put your address or “other personal information” on their blog? I wouldn’t. I rarely even put my last name on the internet.