Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

Blog Responsibility

Just when I thought I had heard it all...

Take an easy breath. What I am going to tell did not happen in WC, but in a northern state. No, not in NY either. We're safe...well, somewhat.

Someone got incensed about a court case and wrote a blog about it. This person had nothing to do with the court case, but he had read about it in the daily papers. After he published what he had to say, some people wrote comments to his blog.

Then, in a day or two, he got a subpoena to appear in the court, and when he did, he was viciously attacked by both sides of the case, not because of the original blog but the comments that were there, some or all by people he didn't know. I guess he was thought to be responsible by other people's thoughts.

I don't know about other blogging sites, but luckily, WC has a remove comment function. Not that we will need it here with the nice and decent WC members, but it is a relief to know we are protected.

This sort of thing, you'd think, would happen in a religiously fundamental country or in a country under a communist regime. Not here in a US State!

I thought blogs were an easy way to publish one's thoughts on the Web, as long as they didn't cross over ethical lines. Some people must be taking blogs way too seriously.