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Article #8114Re: Who remembers this guy?
From: Brian Dooley
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:00
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:00
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:26:47 -0700, Arthur Brain <arthur_brain1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >Theo_Delight@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > >> >> 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? Arthur, will you please stay out of nz.general. -- Brian Dooley Wellington New Zealand
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