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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Swedish paper found liable for pro-Nazi rants on discussion board




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Date sent:      	Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:21:23 -0500
From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To:             	politech@politechbot.com
Subject:        	FC: Swedish paper found liable for pro-Nazi rants on discussion board
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Also see:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24352.html

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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/7/15844/31987

   Swedish court holds forum owner responsible (Freedom & Politics)
   Thu Mar 7th, 2002 at 04:19:42 PM EST

   In a ruling today, a Swedish court holds the editor of thke web
   edition of Aftonbladet (a major Swedish newspaper) responsible for
   comments published on their forum, and the forum has subsequently
   closed. Aftonbladet was one of the first Swedish newspapers with a
   web edition. They are still the most visited website in Sweden, and
   they have up until today encouraged their visitors to voice their
   opinion on different news items in an online forum called 'Tyck
   till' ("Your opinion"). In October 2000, four posts on the forum
   expressed Nazi sympathies, and owing to some technical problems,
   they were not deleted from the forum (which is moderated) for some
   time. This caused charges to be brought on Aftonbladet for
   agitation against an ethnic group, and the matter was resolved
   today when the editor of the web edition was found guilty of the
   charges, on the grounds that the posts were published in the first
   place. The Swedish constitution states that freedom of speech does
   not include the right to agitate against an ethnic group, and this
   was what the court felt was more important than the fact that the
   editor tried to remove the offending posts. This ruling sets a
   precedent whereby the publisher of a website can be held
   responsible for what is published in an open forum, and it might
   even spell the end for unmoderated online discussion on Swedish
   websites.




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