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Friday, April 21, 2006 Apple and Unethical Bloggers Apple is dropping the hammer on bloggers, thanks to the unscrupulous few: A California court in San Jose on Thursday is scheduled to hear a case brought by Apple Computer that eventually could answer an unsettled legal question: Should online journalists receive the same rights as traditional reporters? Apple claims they should not. Its lawyers say in court documents that Web scribes are not "legitimate members of the press" when they reveal details about forthcoming products that the company would prefer to keep confidential. That argument has drawn stiff opposition from bloggers and traditional journalists. But it did seem to be sufficient to convince Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James P. Kleinberg, who ruled in March 2005 that Apple's attempt to subpoena the electronic records of an Apple news site could proceed. You know who they are -- the attention whores of the blogosphere. The ones who will break any news or any story for a few more hits. This one is going to be brutal, but it should remind all of us of our responsibility to respect confidentiality and respect the law. It plays out in the Virginia blogosphere too. I have a great deal of concern regarding the more unscrupulous bloggers who have done untold damage to the reputation of the blogging medium. I remain hopeful that we - as a culture - can cast enough scorn on those blogs who drift from opinion to rumormongering to regulate ourselves before government does it for us. posted by Shaun Kenney \| 4/21/2006 09:48:00 AM \| 2 comments 2 Comments: At 6:26 PM, James Young said... I have a sneaking suspicion that the outlandish stuff (BVBL is a good example) will cease with the first judgment against an anonymous/pseudonymous blogger who perturbs someone enough to go after and get the cowardly chuckleheads. At 6:56 PM, Shaun Kenney said... It's coming sooner rather than later. Post a Comment Home
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