Bank Blogging: The Risk of Allowing Comments
As banks get into the wide world of blogging (even the World Bank now has a blog), those damn lawyers threaten to ruin it for everyone. The Language Artist has an interesting post about the legal risks of blogging, with links to several interesting articles on the topic.
As one commenter to one of the articles succinctly puts it: "Lawyers = Value Destroyers."
Not always, but often enough. And remember: lawyers need clients. It's the client that sues. The lawyer is just the vehicle that helps the client do that. If lawyers didn't exist, then everyone would just have to be a litigating jerk. The way it is, there's a special class of jerks that do the dirty work for everyone else.
Thanks for the link, Kevin. I like lawyers. Some of my best friends are lawyers, and I'll probably end up married to a lawyer. :)
Comment threads can be wild and woolly places, and bloggers, especially business bloggers, need to check comments every once in a while to see what's going on. I think bloggers should be sued if they libel (many bloggers are not exactly sure what it is) someone and/or allow their commenters to.
Posted by: LB | August 27, 2005 at 09:01 PM
"Some of my best friends are lawyers, and I'll probably end up married to a lawyer."
I'll pray that the Lord spares you that fate.
Posted by: Kevin | August 28, 2005 at 04:40 PM
You lawyers kill me. :)
Posted by: LB | August 29, 2005 at 06:47 PM