JWR On Blogging Ethics
Blogging Ethics
By Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir
Is the blogger responsible for defamatory posts?
By Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir
Is the blogger responsible for defamatory posts?
This article was not quite what I thought it would be as implied by the sub-title. Perhaps my mind was substituting inflammatory for defamatory.
posted by BigBubba at 6:29 AM
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2 Comments:
Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed is an interesting source for "blogging ethics". I really need to read it one day.
Speaking of which, I personally think it is perfectly acceptable to denounce and defame "anonymous" people like BB and mr. ducky and Farmer John et al, and taunt and tease them, provided they never reveal their real identities. I think Franklin's use of the Pennsylvania Gazette's Alice Addertongue and Anthony Afterwit to respond to editorials in political rival Bradford's American Weekly Mercury serves as an adequate precedent. What say you BB. How far can we go?
-FJ
I agree one hundred per cent, Farmer John. Part of the fun in anonymous blogging is taunting and teasing in a manner that we are constrained from utilizing in polite society.
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