@ Un droit de réponse bientôt fortement recommandé aux blogueurs Européens dans leurs propres blogs ?
Via Slashdot. Le Conseil de l'Europe est sur le point de finaliser une recommandation qui obligerait les médias en ligne (et aussi les weblogs) à offrir un droit de réponse à ceux qui seraient critiqués dans un carnet Web.
Il s'agit simplement d'une recommandation puisque le Conseil de l'Europe n'a pas d'entité juridique en tant que telle pour pouvoir statuer sur un jugement pour un fait dans l'un de ses 45 Etats membres.
CNet en parle plus largement dans cet article très anti-européen et pro-américain : Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet.
Les recommandations en question :
"The all-but-final proposal draft says that Internet news organizations, individual Web sites, moderated mailing lists and even Web logs (or "blogs"), must offer a "right of reply" to those who have been criticized by a person or organization.
With clinical precision, the council's bureaucracy had decided exactly what would be required. Some excerpts from its proposal:
1) "The reply should be made publicly available in a prominent place for a period of time (that) is at least equal to the period of time during which the contested information was publicly available, but, in any case, no less than for 24 hours."
2) Hyperlinking to a reply is acceptable. "It may be considered sufficient to publish (the reply) or make available a link to it" from the spot of the original mention.
3) "So long as the contested information is available online, the reply should be attached to it, for example through a clearly visible link."
4) Long replies are fine. "There should be flexibility regarding the length of the reply, since there are (fewer) capacity limits for content than (there are) in off-line media."
Et encore...
"Some online publications run by nonprofessionals can be very influential and therefore damaging to the reputation of other people," Thorhallsson told me. "It may be precisely against these (kinds) of publications that there is a need to grant a remedy. It's true that it may look burdensome for a blogger to be obliged to grant a right of reply. Some have suggested that a solution could be that individuals could make a deal with their service providers to administer the right of reply (...)"