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