Freedom of speech can vanish in the night
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Online defamation is in the news in Britain where changes proposed by the ministry of justice, “could see the end of the 160-year-old ‘multiple publication rule’ which media and civil liberties campaigners have argued, “drastically limits freedom of speech,” says the BBC . On Tuesday, p2pnet posted p2pnet wins precedent-setting Crookes appeal as the headline to story centering on a dire threat to online freedom of speech posed by Vancouver, BC, businessman Wayne Crookes who used Canada’s antiquated libel laws to try to claim merely linking to an article constitutes publication. “But in a ruling with implications for not only Canadians, but for everyone everywhere with a net account, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia has agreed with BC Supreme Court judge Stephen Kelleher’s decision that website owners aren’t responsible for defamatory content on other sites to which they’ve linked,” we said.
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Freedom of speech can vanish in the night
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