Blogger Aaron Wall of SEO Book is being sued for $10,000 over comments left on his blog by persons unknown.
Comment: Handling comments is a tricky issue because even the kindliest regime is likely to remove blog spam, pointless obscenities and open-and-shut libels. Dave Taylor recently posted a good article about this, Crafting the Ideal Business Blog Comment Strategy. Of course, the sitution is complicated by the fact that different countries have different laws while blogs are global.
But as Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble points out, this really isn't a free speech issue. Today he writes: "Want free speech? Get a blog of your own. That way only you are responsible for your words. If you're writing on someone's comment area, though, the standards are (and should be) different."
Update: The Wall Street Journal has now reported the case in Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers, dated August 31.
