[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress

Thu Sep 20 12:09:42 UTC 2007

On 20 Sep 2007 at 12:38:42 +0800, "Mark Ryan" <ultrablue at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 20/09/2007, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> > But this is (a) wrong (at least in the case of www hyperlinks),
> > and (b) not relevant to a site hosted in Florida, USA.
> 
> It is relevant. Defamation under UK law happens where the content is
> read, not where it is hosted.

So do we have to follow US law and UK law and Chinese law and Iranian 
law and... ?  That seems impractical.  It may even be theoretically 
impossible; I read somewhere that Turkish law prohibits mentioning 
the Turkish genocide against Armenians, while French law prohibits 
denying that this genocide took place (parallel to French law against 
Holocaust denial).  It's impossible to comply with both except by not 
having any mention of the historical event at all, which would be 
absurd for an encyclopedia.

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