Wonder why us mods get picky sometimes

Posted on Apr 24, 2006 02:46 pm
dbmasters
Administrator Since: Apr 03, 2002

www.theregister.co.uk/200...e_for_comments/

I KNEW this would happen eventually.

coolo
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Since: Jan 28, 2003

Apr 24, 2006 03:16 pm

wow, that's pretty ridiculous. I wonder if you could be prosecuted in germany for a website that's run on servers located in the US if the poster is from Germany. That would be even more ridiculous. Of course they couldn't actually arrest you or make you pay any fines unless you went to germany, but what a headache!

dbmasters
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Since: Apr 03, 2002

Apr 24, 2006 03:18 pm

I just find it interesting that owners of web content are not considered "journalists" and are not able to use journalistic laws to protect their sources identities and such things, but increasingly web content owners are able to be held liable for that same content...typically it's mostly targetting bloggers but increasingly it's forum owners as well.

It will be interesting to see how these laws develop over the coming years.

steveo
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Since: Sep 27, 2005

Apr 24, 2006 08:23 pm

Well if you're afraid, you'll have to overlook it.
'cause you knew the job was dangerous when you took it.

Noize2u
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Apr 24, 2006 10:44 pm

Very interesting dB. And ridiculous as well. But as you stated, time will tell on this one.