Blog TRO Could Go to Supreme Court
Posted Saturday, November 5th, 2005 7:46 pm by Mike Abundo
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And you thought getting flamed for a blog post was bad.
An experienced Internet marketer once told me that if you’re not ticking anyone off, you’re not doing a good enough job of getting your point across.
By that standard, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism must be doing a supreme job. A case to delete one of their blog posts could go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Considering how much publicity it’s creating, this whiny tactic could backfire on the plaintiff. Heck, he sounds even whinier than that wuss from Forbes who wrote that anti-blogging article. Already, the story’s made the dead tree edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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6 Responses to “Blog TRO Could Go to Supreme Court”
[...] Mukhang dinudumog na sa mga blogsites ang balitang na TRO ang PCIJ. Ito ba talaga ang pinakaka-abalahan nyo ng panahon? Tignan nyo na lang dito, dito, dito, dito, dito, dito, dito, dito, dito. At dito pa at dito. At sino yang mga nagsasabing tuta ko tong si Jonathan Tiongco? Abay, cute ang mga asong tuta ko noh! Papatunayan ko sa inyo na hindi sya isa sa mga tuta ko. [...]
I’d rather let the TRO lapse and then blog again about the topic like there was no tomorrow–it’s the more practical approach, especially if the case of the plaintiff is not strong.
But if it’s a matter of principle, then by all means, the TRO should be faced head-on.
Agreed, Angelo. But speculations on the periphery, without touching on the merits of this particular case, is fine.
The comments, of course, we cannot control.
I posted the news on DIGG. Check it out here:
http://digg.com/technology/Philippine_Court_slaps_a_restraining_order_on_a_blog_post
If enough people DIGG it, it will be featured on DIGG’s top stories at the front page, and on the weekly DIGGnation podcast.
[...] We know McDonalds reads fan blogs, so they probably already know she’s gallavanting about with Ronald. Then again, Microsoft Philippines doesn’t even know who Scoble is. Hope McGeorge Food Industries, McDo’s local franchise holder, don’t do anything silly like slapping a TRO on her. [...]
[...] The second case today is the old (in Internet time) story of the TRO on the PCIJ blog. While many opinions have been exchanged on the blogosphere, like in a previous story here, some are off it – like on mailing lists. Here’s an a href=”http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ph-cyberview/message/28774″>opinion by Internet veteran Jim Ayson posted on the ph-cyberview group. It’s an excerpt of a long post on the topic. Did PCIJ overstep its traditional role as responsible investigative journalists when posting that information online? Now this is where the journalists and bloggers can have a go. I would put it as such – Does PCIJ prefer to be Time/Newsweek/Washington Post … Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report and the Smoking Gun? [...]
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