Beware of those depressing blogs
Peter Black’s Freedom to Differ:
At The Inquisitr Duncan Riley rants about how Australian football players have apparently been banned from reading blogs by the Australian Football
League Players Association as reading blogs causes depression:
The AFLPA contends that blogs don’t provide any decent feedback, and
are racist, carry sexual overtones, are a form of bullying and only
provide titillation.
The AFLPA is also calling on people to boycott fan sites due to the criticism of players dished out.
Pippa Grange, AFLPA:
“I wouldn’t encourage any players to use them. I think it’s for
bloggers, and I think it’s mostly for titillation rather any decent
feedback…I wouldn’t encourage any players to use them. I think it’s for
bloggers, and I think it’s mostly for titillation rather any decent
feedback,”
There’s no restriction of what people are able to do with the
internet…blogging on websites about players is a form of bullying, it’s
public bullying of people in celebrity positions.
And even worse is the huge plague of fake footballers:
More serious, she said, were players’ identities being taken by bloggers.
“The biggest thing I’ve encountered in my role where it’s been a
problem is where people take the identity of the player and claim to be
making comments on behalf of the player,” she said.
“They get obviously quite upset about that.”
Lets break down what the AFLPA is saying here: fans shouldn’t
express a negative opinion about a player, this should only be the role
of the mainstream media. People should boycott fan sites and definitely
never pretend to be a footballer.
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The notion that all blogs are bad on the basis that some are is
similar to someone saying all footballers are bad because some take
drugs, beat up women and regularly get drunk. Blogs have long since
moved on from personal playthings and are even the…