Lilliabeth - 5:15 am on Dec 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

First of all...
Please notice the times of your first post and my first post... we posted at the same time, so please understand I had not read your post before I hit the submit button, so I really wasn't disagreeing with you... I was responding to hannamyluv's question about should there be a law, etc.

I think that will lead you to a different interpretation of my first post!

i wholeheartedly agree that there is a whole lot of bad stuff on the internet.

But the question:

should there be something out there "law, code of conduct, etc." that strives to regulate this?

led me to remark that free speech is precious.

There are already laws regarding slander and libel.

So, I am not in favor of new laws that would jepoardize free speech. There are other things we can do to provide at least a bit of protection... you mentioned them:

1. understanding that there is a lack of accountability. 2. determining which of several sites/references on a given subject are accurate and which are not. 3. educating people to check and recheck and recheck again before they believe that what is published is true.

You also said:

The point is not about censorship or about free speach

I think we are in agreement in general, we just interpreted the original post differently (and it appeared that I was posting in response to you but I wasn't), as I saw it as a question as to whether we need formal regulations, and I think there are already plenty of laws already.