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In article <fuEWfDA9FDI3Ew1p@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>, Andy
<andy@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <1970@thanatos.win-uk.net>, Paul Burridge
><osiris@thanatos.win-uk.net> writes
>> 
>>In article <cKnA1AAJDDH3EwOD@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>, Andy 
>>(andy@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk) writes:
>>
>>>Isn't it more correct to say that *during those 10 days* Demon were
>>>publishing material which Dr Godfrey had asserted to them was libellous
>>>- no court having ruled it to be so.
>>
>>It doesn't take a court of law to declare something like the item
>>in question to be capable of being defamatory. Anyone with a
>>room-temperature IQ could see it was. 
>
>Farenheit, centigrade or kelvin?
>>
>[]
>>
>Isn't that mob rule? Sure, I can say X is defamatory, but who am I to
>say it and more to the point who am I to make anyone else take any
>action.

For you as an ISP to continue to distribute the libel _is_ to take
action. You 'act' either way, whether you continue or stop. One way you
cause unjustified hurt, another way you reduce free speech. It is a
particularly uncomfortable and spikey fence to sit on.


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