Blogs & Gag Law: Let's rumble!

Nothing like muzzling dissenters and having a stacked deck at election time Oct. 18, 05, Posted by Paul Tuns -- trackback

[. . . . ] One lawyer even predicted that [Chief Electoral Officer, Jean Pierre] Kingsley may even send a note to prominent bloggers to inform them that they ought not to blog about the election in a partisan manner in an effort to intimidate them, to preemptively silence them. It is incumbent upon us bloggers to not succumb to such intimidation. . . . someone should begin a legal defense fund for the first blogger Kingsley tries to make an example of.

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