Morons call "Global blogger action day"

By: cornwall [privmsg - website] On 21st Feb 2005 In
- Bollocks

NB: Nick W changed the title :)

The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.

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The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on 22 February to the "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day".

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Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad are both in prison in Iran... Iranian authorities have been clamping down on prominent sites for some time.

and the spin is from

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The Committee to Protect Bloggers was started by US blogger Curt Hopkins and counts fired flight attendant blogger Ellen Simonetti as a deputy director.

The odd thing about this article is that there is a lot about "The Committee to Protect Bloggers" but little about the whys and wherefores of the two guys reported to be in prison.

In the end I draw the conclusion that its more about promoting the said committee than trying to free the imprisoned bloggers.

- Y! MyWeb

there must be intelligent life in the Blogosphere surely?

well the principal is great, of course no one should be imprisoned for free speech, I don't know enough about the two guys in question to comment on their cases specifically - but the whole concept is somewhat spoilt by being linked to the International Bloggers’ Bill of Rights.

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FREEDOM TO BLOG.

FREEDOM FROM PERSECUTION AND RETALIATION BECAUSE OF OUR BLOGS:

1.) If an employer wishes to discipline an employee because of his/her blog, it must first establish clear-cut blogging policies and distribute these to all of its employees.
2.) Blogging employees shall be given warning before being disciplined because of their blogs.
3.) NO ONE shall be fired because of his/her blog, unless the employer can prove that the blogger did intentional damage to said employer through the blog.

Blogophobic companies, who violate the Bloggers’ Bill of Rights, will be blacklisted by millions of bloggers the world over.

Aaaaaarg - we have a clear cut blogging policy - exactly the same as our clear cut 'about sleeping with clients' policy and our clear cut 'negative discussion of this company or any client in public' policy - it's called our "IF YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND WHY YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS THEN YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO WORK HERE" clause.

So blacklist me.

By Gurtie at Feb 21 2005 - 10:40

>International Bloggers’ Bi

International Bloggers’ Bill of Rights

indeed a hunk of crap that undermines any legitimacy or usefulness in the idea.

By seobook at Feb 21 2005 - 10:45

Yeah

If you ctrl-f for "nick w" you'll see i commented on that piece of stupidity a while back - i've never seen anything so stupid in my entire life.

Idiots, all of them.

By Nick W at Feb 21 2005 - 12:10

Nick

So...when do we have Threadwatch Awards? Planned that yet? :)

By Brian_Turner at Feb 21 2005 - 13:28

Brian

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/778

By ukgimp at Feb 21 2005 - 13:37

Serious?

I meant a serious industry award, actually. :)

Too early?

By Brian_Turner at Feb 21 2005 - 15:02

Well, what do you wish to be

Well, what do you wish to be an industry commentator on? :)

Maybe something for discussion over pints in Standsted? To see whether it really is a serious idea or just fluff thinking.

By Brian_Turner at Feb 21 2005 - 18:57

What about...

...a petition to get MJ back into Google?

About the award: a "bloggie" springs to mind... Award for the bloggiest blogger, either the one that thinks he/she is the center of the internet/universe OR the one who made the daftest suggestion in a blog, ever.

Given the number of daft blogs, multiple awards might be in order :)

By Wit at Feb 21 2005 - 19:10

Bloggiest blogger

heh, like it :)

Think pints at stansted gets my vote though...

By Nick W at Feb 21 2005 - 19:21

actually there already is a b

actually there already is a blog award program called the bloggies.

By seobook at Feb 22 2005 - 06:06

Better make it...

...a Blozzie then (as in Bloggers' Razzie). More appropriate perhaps. Or is that also an existing award program?

By Wit at Feb 22 2005 - 13:37