Another politican shows his deep grasp of the inner workings of the Internet. Eric Abetz, the unfortunately titled Special Minister for State, wants webloggers to put their names to their content in the same way other political commentary is authorised. A lot of the weblogging community have naturally reacted badly. Personally I am going to ignore it for three reasons:

1. It’s never going to be legally enforceable outside Australia – especially in the US where 1st Amendment rights cover this sort of material.

2. It’s operationally unworkable due to the deep failure of the government to understand how the Internet works (as previously shown by the Government’s plans to block child pornography and copyright violations).

3. Who cares? So the government or a Minister sues me? That’ll generate far more publicity than any little weblog post would. Might even be my 15 minutes of fame.