If bloggers learned nothing else from the Michelle Malkin / SAW incident last month, it should be that providing personal information for purposes of attack or intimidation has no place in an ethical environment.
I’m glad to see a burgeoning ethics movement for the blogosphere, and I’ve signed on. Read the entire statement.
This statement is nonpartisan and nonideological. It is open to participants and adherents left, right and center. In an era when online activism and community have more impact, promise and peril than ever, it is essential that we seize upon the best aspects of the internet — its self-policing, democratic nature — and use them to set an example of reasoned restraint and considered civility.
And if you have a blog, you can sign, too.