November 17, 2009
Sign up
Quick request for everybody to head over to Liberal Conspiracy and sign Unity’s letter to the Press Complaints Commission, objecting to its proposed regulation of UK blogs.
Unity sets out some solid reasons why this is a very unwelcome proposal. I add my further thoughts at comment 7, asking for these to be incorporated into the letter.
If you blog, and haven’t yet signed the letter, please do so now.
Rob said,
November 18, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I’m really not sure that, as a political tactic, writing to an organisation that’s thinking about regulating you telling it that it’s shit at regulating what it already regulates and so you think you’re better off without it is very sensible. It seems likely to antagonise the organisation and hardly, given that presumably it knows that what it does already, likely to change its mind. Presumably, since the PCC is a voluntary organisation, the sensible thing to do would be publicly advise bloggers not to sign up to it. If it’s thought that there’s a risk of government requiring PCC membership, then the government, not the PCC, are the people to write to. Actually, this seems to me typical of Unity’s somewhat twitchily passive-aggressive style, but eh, let many flowers bloom and all that.