Has De Lille been hit with the Bullard stick? May 21, 2007
Posted by Angus in South Africa, Web2.0.trackback
Ouch. What is happening?
Article on IOL details how the ID leader is asking for blogs to be regulated:
“De Lille has also indicated the ID will ask the National Intelligence Agency to try to track down the author of defamatory statements made about the ID’s Simon Grindrod on an internet blog.”
“The only way to put a stop to this is to use every legal option to hold not only the website, but also the perpetrator, responsible. This kind of thing must not go unchallenged.”
How she expects this to happen without SA becoming like China or North Korea is an interesting debate. So much for free speech.
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Yeah, this is a bit ridiculous. stupid move. Once again it’s a thing with someone coming from the outside, not having even the foggiest idea as to how blogging and the internet works and trying to shut down the “series of pipes.”
reminds me of Zapiro : http://www.mg.co.za/zapiro/imagePage.aspx?YearId=2007|MonthId=5|DayId=11
well, the more noises she makes about ‘the internet blog’ the more she gets people to seek out and find out what blogs are, the blogosphere might actually expand a bit as more and more people seek out and start blogs of their own.
when will they ever learn, ignore it, it will go away, rant and rave and you bring attention to it.
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how come its only people with blogs who comment on blogs… maybe if Mrs De Lille actually read a blog she would figure out its just a bunch of egotystical anonymous saddos standing in a circle rubbing each other off and sometimes talking about their cell phones, get a life de Lille the only other people besides bloggers who read blogs are people who get redirected to them by mistake from google, which should really introduce a “no blog” checkbox on its simple search interface so we no longer get sent to these pathetic peoples pages
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AMAndla!!