[Foundation-l] Wikinews - Licensure straw poll

[Pawe³ Dembowski]

> b) Perhaps it's dumb, but it's reality. If you write a text in german
> (to a german audience) in Wikipedia, german courts will judge you - even
> if it's done at a server in Florida. Perhaps the court is not able to
> force the server to put down the text, but it's able to judge you. If
> you are not in germany, that should be no big problem - but as german
> person or visiting germany, you will get problems. This happened before.
> And I strongly expect, that this is the case not only in germany.
> Bye, avatar.

Why would writing text in German imply that it's written for a German
audience and make the German courts able to judge you? It's not as if
there aren't other German-speaking countries...

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