Death Threats Against Bloggers Are NOT "Protected Speech"
Blogger Kathy Sierra has called on the blogosphere to combat the culture of abuse online.
It follows a series of death threats which have forced her to cancel a public appearance and suspend her blog.
Ms Sierra described on her blog how she had been subject to a campaign of threats, including a post that featured a picture of her next to a noose.
The police are investigating while the blogosphere has launched its own enquiry.
-BBC World
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It follows a series of death threats which have forced her to cancel a public appearance and suspend her blog.
Ms Sierra described on her blog how she had been subject to a campaign of threats, including a post that featured a picture of her next to a noose.
The police are investigating while the blogosphere has launched its own enquiry.
-BBC World
-Creating Passionate Users blogsite
tag
creating passionate users
I'm still trying to figure out why/how she has drawn this kind of attack???? Read through some of her posts and um, she isn't even remotely controversial...what gives???
You know, I was somewhat concerned about this sort of thing which is why I opted to use a "handle". Hey, I live surrounded by armed republicans...eek. Ok, really I was more afraid some of them might try to hurt my animals.
I hope they track down every last person who threatened her and prosecute the lot of them.
Posted by
Not Your Mama |
2:54 am, March 28, 2007
Agreed! There are a lot of sick characters out there. I had to go to comment moderation because of two individuals who would come on my site at 2 - 3 am and leave 10 - 15 ultra profane right wing messages.
Lots of sickos.
Posted by
leftdog |
6:47 am, March 28, 2007
Sorry to hear that. The worst I've gotten so far is some spam but only once or twice. I don't think I get enough traffic to attract detractors, the only people who'd probably bother with me would be locals.
Posted by
Not Your Mama |
2:18 pm, March 28, 2007
There are a lot of blogging nutcases out there. The Blogging Tories are full of them, and so are the Blogging Alliance of Non-Partisan Canadians - I had to ban 2 people from the latter aggregator for verbal abuse.
Posted by
John Murney |
2:51 am, March 29, 2007