Blogger Code of Conduct

The BBC is pushing the idea of a blogger code of conduct, citing the words of Tim O'Reilly, identified as one of the web's most influential thinkers. I've never heard of him but apparently he's big news in the UK.

The impetus for the blogger code appears to be death threats sent to one female blogger named Kathy Sierra, also someone I'm not familiar with. The BBC article has a survey form at the link for readers to weigh in.

I think it would be unwise to impose government controls on blogger conduct. Of course, I'm customarily against government control on most everything since it seems to regularly result in aggravating existing problems and creating new problems while spending wheelbarrows of taxpayer funds.