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End of the anonymous net (UK)
An interesting court judgement that if nothing changes could have
some effects in other jurisdictions.
Cheers
David
End of the anonymous net
A little-noticed lawsuit could send shockwaves through the UK net
industry, reports Steve Gold
More net news
Thursday March 22, 2001
The Guardian
British internet users could face new restrictions on what they can
say on internet discussion boards after a UK internet service
provider (ISP) won a court case against two popular websites.
Finance sites Motley Fool and Interactive Investor will now be forced
to reveal the identity of an anonymous user of their services who
has, the ISP claims, defamed the company and its employees.
The weekly webzine NTK summed up the result: "the court decided that
Motley and II could not protect their sources as newspapers can,
because they imposed no editorial control over their forums. So
British law now says UK websites can be sued for libel (because they
are publishers) and be compelled to hand over personal details
(because they aren't). Nice."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,460668,00.html
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