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| Web Fred |
 Thu 29th March 2012, 9:42am
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QUOTE(Detective @ Wed 28th March 2012, 11:09pm)  QUOTE(Text @ Tue 27th March 2012, 2:28pm) A thing most people get wrong is that somehow typing defamation online is different from attaching posters with insults to a wall. Of course it's different. If I put a poster up outside my house, nobody will ever see it other than a handful of neighbours in my cul-de-sac and the postman (unless the Google Streetview people come round again). If I put it up on the Internet, it could in theory be seen by a billion people or more. Also, I can at any time take the poster down. There is no guarantee that anything, once on the Internet, can be deleted. There are too many caches and mirrors. You're confusing getting caught with committing an offence. It's still defamation whether you're less-likely to get caught or not. QUOTE(Text @ Thu 29th March 2012, 12:47am) QUOTE Of course it's different. If I put a poster up outside my house, nobody will ever see it other than a handful of neighbours in my cul-de-sac and the postman (unless the Google Streetview people come round again). If I put it up on the Internet, it could in theory be seen by a billion people or more. Also, I can at any time take the poster down. There is no guarantee that anything, once on the Internet, can be deleted. There are too many caches and mirrors. Eh, right. It's more like printing posters sequentially and putting them around the globe. Not so easy to do offline and surely very costly. Yet less damaging to the environment having not harmed any trees. |
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