Nobody rules OK?

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Nobody rules OK? 
The high court has just decided that internet service providers are
not responsible for the content of their sites. But, asks Steve 
Dunne, if they aren't, then who is?

 Monday July 16, 2001 The Guardian 

The high court has just decided that internet service providers are
not responsible for the content of their sites. But, asks Steve
Dunne, if they aren't, then who is?

 Monday July 16, 2001 The Guardian 

When Demon Internet's lawyers emerged from the high court last
Tuesday, they took away a ruling that could change the face of
British internet law. The presiding judge, Dame Elizabeth
Butler-Sloss, had ruled that internet service providers would not be
held responsible if their users revealed the whereabouts or new
identities of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered James
Bulger in 1993. 

Butler-Sloss, who is responsible for the injunction which protects
Venables and Thompson, said that her original judgment was
inappropriate as regards the internet, and that ISPs were protected
if contemptuous material was posted on web pages - as long as they
took "all reasonable steps" to prevent the publication of such
material. 
 http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,522238,00.html

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