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Could there be any worse news for blogs? While browsing A PR Guru’s Musings,  I came across this link to the European Parliament’s Blog Debates (They are hosting three sessions with media types invited to speak). 

 Some views expressed: "Bloggers behave as if they are in the Wild West,"  "A lot of weblogs are tripe" "blogs damage privacy."  The lack of a legal framework is "deplorable".

Implicit in these remarks (many of them by euro-journalists), is a longing for some sort of regulation. This was an informal debate, but the quotes are from a report on the Commission’s website, and you can note the slant that they chose to highlight.   Let’s hope that Euro-Members of Parliament were bored stupid by it.   Bloggers don’t need any attention from them.

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  1. Posted September 21, 2005 at 6:38 pm | Permalink

    Well, if the EU does decide to regulate blogs it might be just the boost they need.

  2. Hugh
    Posted September 21, 2005 at 7:13 pm | Permalink

    Yes, I agree Matthew. It’s just what bloggers are hoping for. Interesting volumes of regulations to read, lovely forms to fill in, and visits from Euro-Inspectors when they get lonley. The EU could emmulate its agricultural policy, and pay bloggers a “set-aside” subside not to over produce.

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