‘Justice Minister Simon Power has ordered a review into the ”wild west” of the internet, he announced today.
The Law Commission will examine the adequacy of regulations around how the internet interacts with the justice system.
Bloggers and online publishers are not subject to any form of regulation or professional or ethical standards, Mr Power told Parliament.
“I’ve ordered this review because it’s imperative the law keeps pace with technology and that we have one set of rules for all news media,” Mr Power said.
“At the moment we’ve got two tracks – conventional media and the so-called ‘new media’ – intersecting with the justice system, and it’s not sustainable.”

“professional or ethical standards” eh..this, in a socialist country where the MSM are no more than lickspittles pushing government propaganda and recycling handouts!  No wonder this little statist creep wants blogs to conform to the same “standards”.
“Bloggers and online publishers are not subject to any form of regulation” is just plain dishonest–bloggers are subject to the laws of the land concerning name suppression and defamation already.
Keep your hands off it, Power. There must be something useful you can do instead–something like reforming the corrupt troughing mentality of politicians wouldn’t be a bad start.

UPDATE: Good–and accurate– headline from Oswald Bastable: ‘The Thought Police are mobilizing’

Francis Porretto’s wonderful novel is now available through Amazon. Wabbit started reading it late at night and was still absorbed at 4am. Read into it what you will- morality tale or engrossing adventure, or both….just have plenty of coffee on hand!

Chicago Reporters Work as Rahm’s Press Thugs; Threaten Reporter Asking Tough Questions

Show them this

source

In 1872 Arabs invented the condom, using a goat’s lower intestine .
In 1873 the British somewhat refined the idea by taking the intestine out of the goat first.
Thanks to K.T. for that!

for some time tonight, since I won’t have time to keep an eye on the place. The filth and obscenities coming from a couple of the denizens of No Minister can return to where they belong–in the sewer. (or to No Minister, since it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference)

Thanks to Son Of Liberty for this.

HERE
“…”Democrats in the Senate on Thursday held a recess hearing covering a taxpayer bailout of union pensions and a plan to seize private 401(k) plans to more “fairly” distribute taxpayer-funded pensions to everyone,” says Connie Hair at Human Events. By “fairly” they mean fair to everybody but those whose savings are being redistributed.
The working name is The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which would administer Guaranteed Retirement Accounts. This outfit would be empowered to seize the assets of existing retirement funds and convert them into shares of itself…”
(bold mine. kg)

‘Last week’s Washington Post/ABC News poll had an astonishing but barely reported revelation – nearly 25 percent of Democrats now believe “a return to Bush’s policies would be good,” a staggeringly high figure …
President Bush is making an extraordinary political comeback, even though he is nowhere to be seen on the campaign trail and has kept completely out of the political limelight since leaving office. A new CNN poll reports a surge in popularity for the former president, who is now almost neck and neck with President Obama in terms of approval ratings.’
Via Tim Blair