More On Paris Riots

The debate about censorded (mo)blogs at Skyblog (french radiostation hosting blogs) goes on. They where shut down because they supposedly coordinated the French riots

At Joi Itos Blog parts of Thomas Crampton articel at Herald tribune is posted and got several comments

There is no way in which the police can keep track of all all bloggers. So what I dont get is this:

There are plenty of blogservices on the web, so when they found "suspicious" bloggers at Skyblog, why not monitor them instead of shutting them down, and making them move on and blog somewhere else?

The strategy with censorship is bound to fail. The size of the bloggosphere makes it impossible. I think there were/are plenty of blogs not discovered by the french police. Skyblog gets the blame/fame here because it's a small confined communityblog hosted by a radiostation with commercial interests who do not want bad PR.

An independent moblog created and hosted by its own blogger(s) could not be shut down so easily.

Another strategy than censorship is needed for "the next time".


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Categories: paris
Categories: riots