Being scared of blogging
This morning I ended up reading a new blog. I do not remember how I got there, but I remember that the first impression after the first post was: “S**t, I have to stop writing bulls**t on my blog… I can be sued!”
Yes, because the post was all on “Blogging and Law” and how you can prevent from being sued from this or that, for the fact that you wrote that you hate a corporation or because one of your reader sues you because of the joke you wrote six years ago.
One of the things that hit me a lot was that I physically met the owner of the blog. At Barcamp London 3 there was this person who was filming everyone (and even taking photos if I remember well), but who was scared as hell to have its (sorry, I want to cover ITS gender) face published. After reading the post (that I do not link, because there is the risk of being sued) I understand why: the theory is that if your boss knows you are a criminal… sorry… blogger, you can be fired immediately, for one reason or another.
In the end it is easy to laugh about these things, unless until you are not sued… the fact is that if we are scared as hell to be sued, the best thing is to shut our blog down. The reality is that if you play your world in a considerate way you will not get sued. If you do not write the secret of your work, your employer will not fire you (I support those that work with me to have a blog).
We can shut the door of the world, avoiding to speak or to express our idea. Do you think it is safe?
It is idiotic (IMHO)!
Let the world scare you with the threat of a lawsuit and those who cannot care less about my right to speak will win!
