Podcasting and political blogging

Ok, my country having elections soon and it announced a few laws regarding blogging and podcasting political matters. Basically they said cannot blog about the elections and no podcasting. If you want to blog or podcast, u must register with an authority to say u want to setup a site doing political stuff.

What a funny and stupid law! I find it funny that they only pay attention to blog and not other things like forums, websites, Usenet, etc. I find it stupid cuz it sounds like stupid people making stupid policies after reading Internet For Dummies!

I think this law now make alot of bloggers very nervous about what they can or cannot say. But one thing really scratch my head: how they know who the person is behind the blog, so that they can get the blogger to register the site?

The only way to find out is to track down the fella, either via server logs or IP address. Server log needs cooperation from Google, which I think will be impossible unless it's an Interpol case. Then IP address, requires ISP help, again requiring a police matter. And in the end it's just a number, even better, if it's ADSL it's always changing. However, I wrote before about anonymity on the internet, at http://benghacks.blogspot.com/2005/09/anonymity-on-internet.html. That still applies so it's best to read it again.

The fact of the matter is, it's not impossible to find out who the person is if your blog is on Blogspot or other free blogsites. Well, it's not impossible but it can be made very difficult.

If you need help, drop me a line.

ROFLMAO!