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PR Tutorial: Try Not To Threaten Bloggers

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If you are a software maker producing a product that may be harmful to the hardware of innocent gamers, calling out the whistle-blowing blogger with a lawsuit threat may be generally regarded as a bad move. When that blogger happens to be reported by a site dedicated to alerting others about the dangers involved. Doctorow followed up that story the next day with a new "Thank you for your response. I have appended it to my original post and have forwarded it to the Chilling Effects project to be part of the permanent record of abusive attempts by companies to silence their critics." Doctorow further noted how the company also made a similar threat against CNet, to which he Digg and here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.

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