That’s it I snapped.

Let’s play a little game: in the last year the following posts case a firestorm. What do they all have in common?

A Wi-Fi provider can be penalized   if they do not monitor each user and report child porn transmitted.

A person can be arrested if the click on a link pointing to child porn

A Person can steal anybodies are work by declaring in orphaned  

The answer is they all are false! All created from a blog post form a person who did not researched the facts before posting.

The recent panic on the net is a 2006 piece of legislation never passed called the (so called) Orphan Works act.      (2006) H. R. 5439 To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for limitation of remedies in cases in which the copyright owner cannot be located, and for other purposes.

The issue is the person want to use a work but unable to find the owners. I read the law and there are safeguards install that the infringer must use diligence and accepted methods to attempt to find the owner.

I what I find disturbing is how little misinformation on the blogs that can cause a big panic. Luckily this time only nerves of congressional aides are frazzled.  Somebody can case serious damage by using blogs to spread misinformation whether intentional or by carelessness, for example causing a company to go bankrupt.  As somebody who thought blogs was the  answer to the news monopoly  of the (liberal) media but now I see there is a dangerous and darker side to them to where I have to say read with caution  blogs can be untrustworthy or worst because  bloggers  to do not have the checks and balances to screen out mistakes and misinformation.

I am now very skeptical of blog post.

Something to remember

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

Joseph Goebbels

The 2006 Law:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/t2GPO/http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h5439ih.txt.pdf

A few days ago the republicans had they big debate on CNN. The questions were supposed to be from average Joe Republicans. What happened was more the eye can see especially the questions that were asked to the candidates. The alternative media went into action and by the morning the blogs and eventually talk radio reported that many the questioners CNN chose were democratic plants many who are active in the Democratic candidate’s campaigns like the gay former general who is on Hillary steering committee. Thanks to the work of bloggers and others CNN debate has been shown to be a total sham.

The reason I am bringing this up is since I came out and joined the furry community, I could not help noticing the similarities between how the mainstream media reports, or should I say miss reports stories on Furries which  is very similar to the bias against conservatives and fundamentalist and. Unlike my fellow furies the conservatives have cultivated an alternative media to get the message out, i.e blogs and talk radio to counter the bias of the main stream media. The resent response of conservative in debunking CNN shows how effective these networks can be. We Furries need to have a similar network ready to respond when the MFM stile hit piece brakes out.