Dennis Howlett writes in response to "The last stand of the disrupteed industries will be on The Hill"

Tom: Ben Hammersley gave a very good talk about the threats to free speech at Les Blogs 2.0 - he talked extensively about the threats of censorship in its many forms. This looks like yet another. Note also that Wikipedia has caved into making restrictions.

There will be cases where restrictions should apply for the common good. Comment monitoring is one such. I use it to ensure there's no profanity, obscenity or other mindless rubbish. To me, that's for the common good and for the benefit of all my readers who prefer a more considered tone. And as site owner, I'm perfectly free to do that, regardless of what anyone else thinks about it. For me, the issue is about reaching your audience at the level it requires in ALL respects.

But when there is equally mindless legislation - of the kind in France where email could technically be illegal as of tomorrow - then you really do have a messed up world.

Big media will try and muscle this as far as it can but can it truly succeed while adsense rules? Especially if Microsoft weighs in with significant monetary incentives for advertising. Imagine that - Google and Microsoft sharing a team of lawyers? Can you really see legislators wanting to step into that space? I can't. Anywhere on the planet.