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Raymond M. Kristiansen
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Internet publishing hits free speech roadblock
June 6, 2002 - 09:30 AM
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"An article is officially "published" in the place where it is downloaded from the Internet, a judge rules."
"A media company can now be sued in any country in the world where its material is viewed over the Internet."
Read the story here.
Does this mean that publishers will want to take more content offline?
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Martin Kuplens-Ewart
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it's the australians...
June 8, 2002 - 01:01 AM
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...for once it's not a stupid decision being made by yanks. :P
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Amazing...
June 8, 2002 - 01:01 AM
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Yikes to that article.
I think this just further represents the problem that the internet has evolved to the point of exceeding the limits and controls of singular nations. And its fanastic.
Cases like this are sad, sure, but whether or not Gutnick was defamed in the original isnt the point.
Information channels are now flowing into the 191 countries with internet access (anyone know the countries without it?!?!) and it used to be that anyone could preach an opinion to anyone, and that was the glorious part of the internet - free speech to all.
The internet is a great big river of information, and anyone can go fishing in it. And you can even introduce your own species of fish into it too. But according to draconian laws here in Australia, what your fish does to another fish is your problem...no matter where along the river your fish did it.
Interesting analogy. Anyone else make sense of this. Feel free to use seafood too.
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Melanie
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argh....
June 8, 2002 - 12:24 PM
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don't you just love how the US tries to move everything to their soil and take a unilateral approach?
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Nigel Kehler
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Re: Internet publishing hits free speech roadblock
June 10, 2002 - 01:43 AM
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I read an interesting article about this kind of stuff. For example the CEO of Yahoo! could be arrested if set foot in France because he lets them view the selling of Natzi memorabilia on the Yahoo! auction website.
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