BLOGGING TIMES: April 1st, 2005: Blogging was declared an illegal activity in the United States and was banned in any form. Millions of bloggers have opposed the ban and taken to streets...er... to blogging. Thousands of bloggers were arrested and put in jail as a result of directly opposing the ban. Our reports say, states are running out of jail space. Some of the bloggers were released when they agreed to handover their computers as bail.
When a government spokesman was asked about the reason for banning blogs, he said, "It is a criminal waste of time that can be otherwise used for being with one's family. About 23 billion hours were wasted in the year of 'blog', 2004. We are declaring blogging illegal and banning further use." Our correspondent reminded the spokesman about violation of 'Freedom of Speech' by banning blogs. Spokesman replied "We are in process of amending that right!"
Article comments
1 - Aaman
Funny - close to the truth in some countries.
check yr grammar, mate
2 - Viv
And according to the latest flash, police and the airforce shot and bombed the protestors.But the bloggers managed to blog their way into them and a large number of police and airforce personnel have defected to the blogger's camp.Of late reports have leaked of a possible compromise.The proposal is that the bloggers may be required to blog a 100 billion hours over the next one year as penalty or imposition.
3 - Angie
(groans) Come over here so I can slap you! :)
4 - DrPat
They'll get me off my blog when they pry my cold, dead fingers off the keyboard. Nyah!
5 - jotaesse
I think that this is a joke of the april 1 fool day, hehehe...
6 - Charlie
Thats' too bad for you yanks. Up here in Canada the government has gone in a different direction and is actually paying Canadians to blog like crazy.
7 - Businessorati
It is scary! My April fool day's joke seems to be turning into a reality.Read this post on Slashdot:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/04/0149243&from=rss
8 - Eric Olsen
thanks BizO, this "registration" business gives me a little different perspetive on why gun people get all freaked out about registration, licensing, etc.
A very strange detour for campaign finance reform, and another ramification of blogs becoming businesses
Our Justene has more on SF action here
9 - DrPat
The Gaijin Biker had a different take on this prospective registration:
G.B. does point out that MSM commentary is specifically excluded, and blogs with unique visitors numbering 500 or more in any 90-day period would need to worry about this, and that very few bloggers would be affected. Also, it is not $1000 of all blog-related costs, but only those associated with "Electioneering Communications."