Well we knew it was never going to be a cakewalk. Now a short reference to the potential troubles of unleashing distributed, unfiltered communications in the form of blogs. Provost Peter Lange at Duke University writes from a personal experience to staff about some of the key free speech issues to be considered. It's all about the control baby.

"As we all are aware blogs and email have “democratized” communication; anyone with access to a computer can get in the game as writer or spectator. In many ways this is a very good thing, for it reduces the elitism of “publication” and the control of opinion by opinion “sellers”. Nonetheless, this “democracy” is also permissive of saying almost anything, about almost anyone or anything, using any language, no matter how distasteful, disrespectful or dismissive. We can spread our ideas faster, and without the mediation of others, but we can also control neither their dispersion nor the nature and distribution of reactions to them. In fact, if those reactions distort the account of what we have said, there is likely no way to correct the record for the large number of people who may have secondarily received those distorted interpretations. "