War on Blogs: What the F*** is John McCain Thinking?

Until about half an hour ago, I was very seriously considering giving John McCain my support in the 2008 presidential election. That is until I read about his new pet legislation which would place an undue burden on bloggers to take responsible for everything written in our comments section.

If passed, the legislation would also require social networks to take responsibility for preventing sexual predators from having membership on their sites. This would include blogs like the Daily Kos and WashBlog, both of which use Scoop to allow multiple users to set up diaries on the site.

If McCain is looking to take himself out of the running for 2008, he just succeeded. He’s gone and pissed off a very influential group of folks.