Industry #2 - (is it shocking that i think this way?)

Hmmmm, this article could generate a lot of opinion based on the laws we have for media and those for free speech, at least in this country. Suing someone because of what they wrote in a blog seems as reasonable to me as any other case of this kind in other media. Although certain factors should be involved. The blogger and the users who comment on the blog should be held accountable for what they post depending on its content as to if it's fact or opinion. Again as someone would be in any other form of media. A blogger's credibility is up to the reader to decide. A blog can be written by anyone about anything and whether or not we believe what's written to be true is up to the us. People question the information they get from other media based on where it comes from, so they should be able to do the same here. If the blogger's content or the user comments are targeted, I believe the ISPs should act towards the personal information of their users the way a journalist would act with their sources and the same laws should apply. Bloggers and users, like sources, would most likely say things differently or not at all if they didn't have a degree of anonymity. Protections should be provided to users and the only regulating that should be involved is that which users define for themselves. There are exceptions (that I agree with) like those applied to mature content and such. Any user on the internet should be able to judge for themselves what they believe to be credible and what they think is acceptable. And if any of them have a problem with that they can post their comments and say so.

That may be a bit contradictory, but this isn't the easiest subject to agree on one way or the other.