Re: Who remembers this guy?

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From: Arthur Brain
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:26

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Theo_Delight@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

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> The article has since been corrected and the vandalism removed.

Why is it vandalism?

Those are quotes relevant to the issue of people defaming each other
and suing each other on the internet.

Unless some of those insults about germans/thais/canadians were
forgeries - which I don't believe was the case. Or am I wrong?

The way I unerstand it is people insult each other on the internet,
and one particular individual took advantage of his superior
understanding of the defective defamation law in the UK to send people
threatening letters about their half of the insulting exchanges.
On 6 or 7 occasions this ended up in court.

I think the quoted insults are quite interesting.

We start off with "Canadians are idiots" (non-defamatory, unless more
recent race-hate legislation can be bent to the task?)
and go on to "Individual A. is X" (defamatory, where X is a negative
thing).

So why on earth do you consider the "Canadians are idiots" quotes to
be vandalism?

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