BBC News reports: "Blogs and other internet sites should be covered by a voluntary code of practice similar to that for newspapers in the UK, a conference has been told."
Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin said he opposed government regulation of the internet, saying it should a place "in which views bloom". But unless there was a voluntary code of conduct there would be no form of redress for people angered at content.
Comment: Thanks to the PCC, British tabloid newspapers are, of course, stupendously accurate and models of propriety, and they are only too eager to correct any stories that might ruin people's lives.
Good luck in getting bloggers in the US, Japan, China, Russia, Iran etc to sign up to these Great British Standards, and thus stave off government regulation.
