Why bloggers should go to jail

My new Netkwesties column is up. (Warning: in Dutch.) It deals with the matter of the 'Apple bloggers' that are currently appealing a court order to reveal their source for several articles citing confidential information about Apple.

Bottom line of the article: this is a test case for the entire blogosphere. These bloggers have an opportunity to make a stand for civil journalism, namely by not revealing their sources even if the court should order them to. Instead, I argue they should accept any punishment dished out and go to jail, just like any other journalist worth his salt would.

New civil liberties have hardly ever been granted, but many of them can eventually be won.

(Oh, by the way, Babelfish theoretically offers Dutch-English translations, but it will probably just give you a good laugh.)

18:52

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You will be assimilated

Here's a strategy for dealing with less than optimally integrated immigrant kids I hadn't thought of yet.

Instead of countering their intolerance with ours, we pretend we are not countering at all, but merely trying to adjust their behavioral problems.

This may seem soft to you, but it means that hordes of fanatic female social workers will descend upon the poor immigrants. With more fury than probably even Genghis Khan could muster they will talk and drug any deviants into submission (no Hirsi Ali pun intended), in the same way that any slightly active boy is currently being forced to take Ritalin, and every slightly shy girl is using Prozac intravenously.

I feel sorry for them.

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