The Telegraph Group made a legal move yesterday to take down an elected Member of Parliament's Blog when she had criticised both a newspaper's editiorial policy and the motivations of its proprietors.
I cannot add any substance to what Dizzy (my favourite UK political blogger) has got here in his scoop. I understand from this report that the actual legal ploy used was a breach of the "Acceptable User Policy".
In my opinion, the fact that Nadine Dorries is not for many of us liberals an attractive figure is neither here nor there in these circumstances.
On the basis of Dizzy's report, I think it is a disgraceful act by a UK newspaper group.
Saturday, 23 May 2009
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"On the basis of Dizzy's report"'Dizzy' has now made clear in that twice-clarified report that Dorries' providers were CCed on communication with that now-holidaying MP about specific content. What Dorries said or did about that is unknown at this stage (though perhaps we can expect further clarification), and it is important to know what if any opportunity she was given to respond and how she responded.
If Dorries and/or her admin team are not there to edit specific content, her providers will have little choice but to turn the whole thing off, which is what they appear to have done after being dumped with this risk.
Alternatively, Dorries may have chosen to turn the whole blog off rather than bother with any edits and/or standing by anything else she has said recently.... the main point is that we do not know all we need to know before passing judgement on this.
I'd like to hear more about what opportunity Dorries had to respond and who made what specific demands/ choices.
san
Guido Fawkes Blog (http://www.order-order.com/tag/dead-tree-press/) give a link to Nadine Dorries Blog, still cached on Google.
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