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« Broadway | Main | Trunk Show » December 10, 2006Everything's Blog In TexasMike Chapman at Blogabilities writes about the blogosphere's impact on the legislative process. A Texas legislator has introduced a bill to extend defamation of character protections to the Internet, and I found out about it first where? The Internet.Chapman recaps how "a group of bloggers, and their mostly anonymous and pseudonym-bearing commenters" formed "an online posse" to criticize Texas state Rep. Vicki Truitt, who has introduced legislation intended to extend defamation of character protections to Internet activities. The blogospheric reaction "was enough to catch the attention of the legislation's author" - and impact the legislative process, he writes. The Forth Worth Star Telegram reports that Representative Truitt will take the points of view of the bloggers in mind as this issue is addressed during the next session of the Texas Legislature, which convenes in January. Considering that probably only a handful of the bloggers live in Truitt's district, and many of them don't even use their real names, I see Truitt's latest move as just more evidence of the great power of the unknown that exists in the world of social media today.Chapman, a government affairs and public policy specialist with anthonyBarnum PR in Austin, says the incident "is just the beginning of what promises to be the most interesting free speech issue of the year." Read the whole thing. A roaming gnome is involved.
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A couple of things come to mind: 1. I believe it was Raven before she stopped blogging that said something like 'when they don't know who you are, it makes it harder for them to silence you.' 2. Another quote I can't remember at the moment goes something like: 'Speak for yourself, or else somebody else will.' But of course we can always fall back on the printed media .... Posted by: Drinkin' the Franklin Kool Aid at December 10, 2006 7:55 PMPost a comment
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