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12.09.04

toward a blogger's legal defense society

Jeff Jarvis and Ernie the Attorney call for the creation of a legal defense fund for bloggers:

In this case, I think there is a very specific need: Jason and Robert before him needed to tell the lawyers calling him to "call my lawyer."

Of course, bloggers can't afford lawyers of their own. But we know from Robert's case there there are a good number of good souls with legal degrees out there who are willing and eager to help.

I suggest that what we need now is a means of organizing them so a blogger who's getting harassed by big corporate or government attorneys can call for help. In some cases, the lawyers may say that the blogger did something wrong. But in most cases, the lawyer can breath fire back at the corporate dragons and skip the harassment stage and get right to the civilized discussion and agreement stage.