Yep, it was only a matter of time before those EU bureaucrats got themselves in a tizzy about freedom of speech. The Council of Europe has now decreed that
Internet news organizations, individual Web sites, moderated mailing lists and even Web logs (or “blogs”), must offer a “right of reply” to those who have been criticized by a person or organization.
With clinical precision, the council’s bureaucracy had decided exactly what would be required. Some excerpts from its proposal:
• “The reply should be made publicly available in a prominent place for a period of time (that) is at least equal to the period of time during which the contested information was publicly available, but, in any case, no less than for 24 hours.”
• Hyperlinking to a reply is acceptable. “It may be considered sufficient to publish (the reply) or make available a link to it” from the spot of the original mention.
They’ll be measuring our pixels next. (Via Blogs of War.)
HILLARY’S GENIUS: “She has employed a brilliant two-pronged strategy that even Tommy Franks would admire. She has given the Right a target, far ahead of the real battle, that has tested the enemy’s resources and has them wasting all their ammunition. This done without giving up a single iota of political capital from herself. At the same time she sucked up all the remaining oxygen left for any of her Democratic competitors. Brilliant!” – more feedback on the Letters Page.
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