On 20 Sep 2007 at 12:38:42 +0800, "Mark Ryan" <ultrablue(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 20/09/2007, Steve Summit <scs(a)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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