Political Penguin

I’m not taken to swearing in writing very often, I will as a policy try to keep it to a minumum, but from time to time I intend to let go, so you have been warned.
Our subject is; some dickhead from the Press Complaints Commission, in fact their director Tim Toulmin wants bloggers to adopt a voluntary code of conduct. Alert, we’re in the territory of twats who don’t know what they’re talking about. To express such a view is to misunderstand the whole nature of both the net and the blogging culture. I won’t expand too much or I will be here all night. But suffice to say there are fundamental freedoms of expression that thrive out in the blogosphere. Yes some people are fuckwits who write such purile crap that it’s likely they’re only talking to themselves, which is probably the best thing. Equally, there are those whose writings are well thought out, come with the authority of good research and background knowledge and afford respect within the community. I think what he is trying to say is that if a newspaper libels someone or is discriminatory, they can be sued or prosecuted.
Yes, there are some allegations made against individuals on the net which are wholly untrue and should the victim of such false information seek to sue the author assuming it contravenes any laws either here in the UK or where the site is hosted (it get’s tricky then) then they are fully entitled to do so.
However, having been on the receiving ends of threats from LibDems to sue me in the past I would simply say this; and if you are wondering, it’s my personal code of conduct. Write what you like about who you like as long as it’s true and you’ve got the evidence to back you up. If you know this then you can safely tell those who threat to sue to fuck off and stop wasting your time. I can guarantee that anything I write has been fairly well researched or comes from the vast expanse of daft information that I have absorbed throughout my lifetime. However, to believe that someone is a fuckwit dickhead wanker twat is purely my personal opinion and is not libelous in anyway, and Mr Toulmin, today you fall into this category.