Bloggers and Their Rights

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Jim Duncan

Bloggers deserve protected free speech too, and it looks like Waldo Jaquith, with the help of the VA ACLU, Thomas Jefferson Center for Protection of Free Expression, and Public Citizen, is set to prove that fact (again).

The time will come I suspect when a real estate blogger is going to be placed in a similar situation, whether it’s a freedom of speech issue or a journalism -vs- advertising suit.

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About Jim Duncan

A Charlottesville Realtor who tries to stay on the bleeding/cutting/functional edge of technology and real estate trends. I have been selling real estate for the past 10 years, lived in C'Ville for twenty+ and am married to one of few Charlottesville natives left.
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  • http://www.miamism.com ines

    Unfortunately, it will take more cases for us to know where bloggers will fall with regards to “protection” – right now we’re in the middle and left to the jaws of non-precedence.

  • http://www.DirtBlogger.com Bill Burruss III

    Jim, Great topic. Also checked your post, journalism -vs- advertising, at http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/07/20/is-real-estate-blogging-advertising/. I feel all the bloggers should check that one out.

  • http://www.realcentralva.com Jim Duncan

    Bill -

    Thanks so much. We’re in uncertain times for sure, and I hope that we as Realtors/bloggers/journalists recognize the stakes.

  • Scott Pershing

    Here is another bizarre twist to think about. Lawyers in DC are suing to prevent their names and addresses (which come from public documents) from being listed on a website which allows clients to find them as well as rate them!

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/08/AR2009030801530.html?nav=rss_email/components