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Two jobsworths out, plenty more to go « Nannystate's Blog — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:08:11 +0000

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By: Boney

Boney — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:27:27 +0000

internet law?! had no idea a whole set of made up laws goven the whole internet around the world.

By: Philtheone

Philtheone — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:18:21 +0000

It’s not an “internet law” though.

By: john

john — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:09:14 +0000

You cant just opt out of the internet laws unfortunatly.

By: Jamesh

Jamesh — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:31:24 +0000

Lol internet.

If anyone belives that swearing at other people on the internet is illegal, then i seriously suggest that you spend a bit more time on here

By: Boney

Boney — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:34:30 +0000

A legal disclaimer that has to be “check boxed” by the unregistered poster should do the trick. That and moderation of any post distantly illegal in nature. That’s all you need to show ‘due diligence’ as TrooBloo rightly put it. As Troobloo also noted you don’t want to get owned for ‘inciting hatred’ or the enabling of it via the comments. There is little to no basis on the site for that though as it is.

Defamatory remarks are by users are ok as long as there based on hard facts or are pure opinion and are stated that way. The law does look at the context of a defamatory remark in court.

If I was to call you a paedophile directly as a statement of fact you might have grounds to sue me.
If I was to like you to a paedophile in an analogy then you probably would not depending on context.

To be honest, I don’t think ya have anything to worry about in my opinion

By: TrooBloo

TrooBloo — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:21:55 +0000

You are right Phil, re the Gasjet. The way I see it There are three choices 1. Heavily Moderated – expensive 2. Self Moderation – we know about those drawbacks 3. No Comments! This is why when the story is about a particular person or group of people they just turn comments off..

By: Philtheone

Philtheone — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:06:14 +0000

Why do you think that, Paul?

By: Preston Paul

Preston Paul — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:40:47 +0000

I’m not been funny pal, but it is about time you had your wings clipped.

By: Philtheone

Philtheone — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:55:07 +0000

Again, WordPress is nothing to do with this, it’s just a blogging framework that I downloaded and installed on my own server.

It has no link whatsoever with this website. The only person that knows IP addresses of visitors is me.

I don’t see how I could be sued for these comments given that I didn’t make them, however the Gasjet must have their user driven moderation for a reason!!