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Article #645Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <k8OsYHBLcwH3EwbU@swarb.demon.co.uk>, David Swarbrick <david@swarb.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> If the same standards >>are applied to newspapers as to newsgroups, it wouldn't matter whether >>it was true or not, they'd have to bin them just in case. >No, newspapers and their distributors have lived with these laws for >many years, and have still managed. Newspapers are *edited* media. A newspaper has a physical person to look at everything that goes into it, so most material of any kind never gets to the newsagent. Usenet isn't like that, and can't be like that. -- This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document "Twenty-two points, plus triple-word-score, plus fifty points for using all my letters. Game's over. I'm outta here." -- Melissa ... by Kwyjibo.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fad9d,3f32b12ce8da2cf X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public X-Google-Thread: 1139f4,3bef05ac7272c5b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1139f4,public X-Google-Thread: 10b38e,116848e9373ed6b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b38e,public X-Google-Thread: f6783,b7fbaecc2a00dadf X-Google-Attributes: gidf6783,public From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling Date: 1999/04/23 Message-ID: <7fpnar$6ko@bonkers.taronga.com> X-Deja-AN: 469944909 References: <7dgt4n$f6u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <lr1edMAB5iH3EwbO@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk> <e6pEfbAWOkH3IwFv@packer.demon.co.uk> <k8OsYHBLcwH3EwbU@swarb.demon.co.uk> Organization: none Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,uk.politics.censorship,uk.legal,demon.service