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MISTICA: The death of unmoderated discussion groups in France?

From: Roberto Roggiero ([email protected])
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 22:02:01 AST

To: [email protected]

Interesante (y preocupante) nota sobre un fallo de una corte francesa: el
webmaster de un sitio
web fue encontrado responsable por los comentarios publicados en un foro
electronico no-
moderado.

Roberto.

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Subject: [isdf] The death of unmoderated discussion groups in France?

fwd from Declan McCullagh: http://politechbot.com
> From: "Benoit Tabaka" <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:40:01 +0200
>
> Declan,
>
> A short piece of news from France. Yesterday, a french lower Court decided
> for the first time in Europe that a webmaster is responsible for comments
> published by Net surfers on unmoderated forums of its Internet site. This
> webmaster was sued for libel.
>
> This ruling sets a precedent whereby the webmaster (thus publisher) of a
> website can be held responsible for what is published in an non-moderated
> forum. This is the first step to the end for unmoderated online discussion
> on french (and perhaps european) websites.
>
> French d�cision :
> http://www.foruminternet.org/documents/jurisprudence/lire.phtml?id=323
>
> Best regards,

> Beno�t Tabaka

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