Blogging All the Way to Jail

[IntiRaymi]

Josh Wolf is the first blogger to be targeted by federal authorities for not cooperating with a grand jury. Are the courts trying to send a message to new media?

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1222780,00.html

Before there was YouTube's crush of do-it-yourself video online, Josh Wolf was busy taking media into his own hands. As one of the Internet's earliest videobloggers, Wolf thrust himself onto the front lines of citizen journalism, uploading his politically spiked, home-grown content onto www.joshwolf.net. While bypassing old media gatekeepers — like editors and programming schedules — Wolf, 24, gained unprecedented access to the Web's global stage, but he also fast won notoriety for his attempts to democratize the media. Last year, Wolf earned the wrath of Al Gore's youth cable channel, Current TV, when he criticized the new station's hiring practices along with its video submission policies on his blog. In protest, he started the Rise Up! Network, a non-profit alternative media site, where anyone can feature his or her own video work and retain exclusive rights.

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I think that this is part of an effort to set a precedent. This will become the pattern in the future - so if you express an opinion online, you may become prosecutable for any number of reasons.

[IntiRaymi]

1. This dropped fast...

kick!

[Double T]

2. Interesting....opinions on-line will be prosecuted..........

while opinions by the MSM, heavily flavored with 'neocon', will be accepted, praised and legal. When is the official date for the start of the police state??

[IntiRaymi]

3. A soft phasing in of a new status quo.

No fixed date, I would guess.

[Double T]

4. I guess the new internment camps they are building will be for.......

'opposition bloggers'. Sure hope the camps have Wi-Fi.