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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Getting to Know Sue

I just realized that I'm in danger of being sued about 10 minutes ago when I was reading mr brown. All coz I had named statutory boards, "defamated" persons using pink, orange and hell sorts of nicks, posted my pictures, had personal views? Since when has the Internet grown so dangerous to normal people like you and me? I used to think that only viruses, hackers and all that were the tragic dangers of this otherwise free world. It seems not. I don't write chim stuff unlike those blogs that I went to regarding this matter - in fact I gave up reading on quite a few of them coz they wrote lots and went too chim, let's get straight to the point ok? oh no! I just defamate people again - but hey! this whole issue is getting too huge and too much. Technology it seems is making my world smaller each day instead of bigger - and it was supposed to help us accomplish much, see the irony here? - coz there's lots more stuff that I can't do now with laws such as these coming up. There is nothing worse than having the means to do something - blog!! - yet having restrictions - crazy laws - to pull you from from executing the final moves - the publish button, your keyboard and brain. I used to have to just make sure I have my mouth well covered before I yawn make nasty comments and now? Will have to make sure my butt is well covered before I type something too. I started my blog sometime last year just for the sake of having one - tashes created my blog for me and FORCE me into it, ok maybe not - though as time passes, I found the freedom of publishing thoughts, opinions, pictures, sharing them to the world - eversince P2P got kinda illegal - really satisfying, however small my readership is Perhaps I should keep an offline diary - which means shutting down the blog and removing all traces of defamation if that's even possible - instead coz even anonymity online isn't all that safe or easy. Perhaps not coz I can't write - this sad person can only type coz I'm a programmer. Oooops! Am I allowed to mention that? Anyway, before I finish up, can somebody please tell me if an offline diary passed back and forth my small community would be a more feasible idea? And if I were to name statutory boards, "defamate" persons using pink, orange and hell sorts of nicks – or gasp! real names, pasted my pictures and had personal views, would I still get sued? Heck! With laws - popping up every other day somemore - and all that crap, where the hell are my personal rights now?

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