Now I’ve seen everything. According to the Beeb, Tim O’Reilly, amongst others, is calling for the implementation of a blogging code of conduct in response to the whole “OMG someone threatened death against Kathy Sierra meme”, which he describes as
a code of conduct around what is acceptable behavior, I would hope that it doesn’t come through any kind of [legal/government] regulation it would come through self-regulation.
OK, so I’ve been a little negative lately in my analysis of all things blogging, but how do you spin this crap positively? You cant.
It’s complete and utter bollocks (language refrained due to the audience).
A code of conduct is going to stop nutters making death threats on blogs. Yeah, and a f*cking lettuce leaf will bring peace in the Middle East and a carrot will appease North Korea.
Are these people on drugs?
And no, I’m not just talking about the Grade A nutters making death threats against feminist obsessed professional victims, but the Grade A nutters who think that implementing a blogging code of conduct will make even an ounce of difference.
Could there be any other possible explanation?
The world is an amazing place, screwed up, but amazing none the less. :-)
Originally posted on March 29, 2007 @ 12:30 am
The way I look at it, we all already have a “code of conduct”. It’s called “common sense”. You don’t go out in the street and punch people in the face because you know it’s not a good idea, but there are some people that do that and explaining a code of conduct to them wouldn’t do much good.
That said, there’s no need to bash Tim for being a nice guy.
He’s not being nice Stan, he’s being stupid…that and jumping on the look at me bandwagon started by Scoble and followed by others. Michelle Malkin has been getting death threats for years, and yet the silence was deafening, perhaps it’s all about Sierra being white, maybe it’s only bad when white folks get death threats??
see http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2007/03/kathy-sierra-and-ethics.html
Ahh the Duck got here first! :)
I’ve no idea how you’d even implement such a code of conduct, even if it was a good idea.
It’s not.
Governments can barely control the Internet – there are always ways around whatever censorship is put in place – and that’s a good thing.
Whilst I don’t like what’s happened, rhetoric calling for codes of conduct are ridiculous. They can’t work.
I don’t usually comment here because it mostly the same stuff I read on 5 other blogs that cover blogging. It’s nice to see an original thought. It’s not necessary, but it’s nice that I agree with it too.
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