Blogging and Its Political History

Politics has been associated with a good historical impact on blogging. At the time that people were getting used to the blogs with the term coined from “we blog”, politics utilized the capability of the blogs to reach out to the crowd in an effort to promote their popularity as well as selling their policies to the public. In the US, the campaigns which were being conducted around the second millennium celebration used blogging to a greater extent and it served well to create awareness and promote aspirants popularity to the public. After its outstanding positive impact on the campaigns in these states, other aspirants from other regions of the world also followed suite in use of blogs for political purposes.

Despite the fact that blogging was having a great impact on political platforms, there were some undesirable activities that were later initiated by people who were acting in preference to some candidates or on rivalry basis. This was greatly facilitated by absence of regulatory rules to govern the content that was being dispatched through blogging sites. From the Blogging history, it would not be sensible to control what people were updating on their diaries which later developed into blogs. Freedom of speech especially in the developed countries also made it easy to get undesirable stuff in the websites through blogs. At first, the penalty for such scenarios was banning the blogging sites involved but at the long run it was turning out to be cumbersome and inefficient.

Introduction of sites which were specialized in blogging made it easy to control the type of content that writers could dispatch through blogs. They set up rules and regulations which could govern the content of the blogs and also devised stringent measures to protect writers against plagiarism though copyright protection. This went a long way to make blogging a reliable tool to use in many websites owing to the improved security of the information dispatched through blogs. It also made it easy to scrutinize blog content that was being dispatched making it even friendlier to the public.

It is however worth noting that anyone who has a blogging site should not only abide by the rules and regulations set by blogging sites. Some rules may not be outlined in the category of the do’s and the don’ts but they are rather governed by respect for humankind which makes it necessary to have a self evaluation on the information being dispatched on the blogging sites. It is also advisable to keep off from criticizing the government because at the long run one might get himself in controversial situations. A number of people have been alleged in court for dispatching information related to government issues. Of course there is freedom of speech but most issues pertaining to system of governance in many countries or in various states have so much propaganda. It is really difficult to evaluate whether the rumors being whispered around are genuine or not. The best way to stay safe from such scenarios is to keep off from such topics which are sensitive to the system of governance for a given state.