[Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Fri May 20 22:18:10 UTC 2011


> On 20 May 2011 18:02, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>
>> > On 20 May 2011 22:47, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> >> Please mail User:Oversight with any such instance you are aware of.
>> >
>> > That's not actually legal.
>> >
>> > --
>> > geni
>> >
>>
>> What on earth is illegal about assisting the project in avoiding
>> publishing defamatory information?
>>
>>
>
> What Geni means is that if he (as a UK resident) identified something
> that
> violated the superinjunction, emailing Oversight would be sufficient for
> him
> to violate the superinjunection.  I am not certain that is 100% correct,
> if
> he does not name any names, but I can understand that perspective.  As it
> is, there are plenty of non-UK citizens/residents watching the articles
> involved to address the situation, so generally speaking UK
> residents/citizens should not feel they are obliged to put themselves at
> risk.
>
> Risker/Anne
>

Even the U.K. has not formally enacted Catch 22.

Fred




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