Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Blogging and the Law
I enjoyed listening to Tom speak about his experiences both in and out of Oracle. The thing that really struck me about his talk were the legal aspects involved in blogging. I think that it is very interesting to see how some older laws are translated into modern day context. This is a problem with many laws; technology is being developed too quickly and the government is not able to keep up. Therefore, its seems as though in decided some of these cases, the verdict is somewhat arbitrary. How do existing laws regarding printing libel and slander translate into something that is not actually "printed?" I don't think that the laws are as clear-cut as some might make them out to be.
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I totally agree with you that it is hard to see how intangeble and rather conceptual assets can be regulated by the government in timely manner. Though, I also thought it is interesting how Tom said often times, web is self-regulatory that he does not have to maintain people's responses. For now, self-regulatory character of web seems to be the only way we can regulate the web.
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