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FC: The death of unmoderated discussion groups in France

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From: "Benoit Tabaka" <benoit.tabaka@wanadoo.fr> To: <declan@well.com> Subject: The death of french unmoderated forums Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:40:01 +0200

Declan,

A short piece of news from France. Yesterday, a french lower Court decided for the first time in Europe that a webmaster is responsible for comments published by Net surfers on unmoderated forums of its Internet site. This webmaster was sued for libel.

This ruling sets a precedent whereby the webmaster (thus publisher) of a website can be held responsible for what is published in an non-moderated forum. This is the first step to the end for unmoderated online discussion on french (and perhaps european) websites.

French décision : http://www.foruminternet.org/documents/jurisprudence/lire.phtml?id=323

Best regards,

Benoît Tabaka -

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