On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 11:28:12 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 10:34:23 UTC, Chris wrote:
A short OT question: A friend of mine wants to set up a forum
or mailing list and would like to know to which extent the
moderator or owner of the forum is liable, if some random
troll or member puts libelous, insulting or racist remarks on
the forum. I guess it depends mainly on national laws, but is
there some general "I'm not responsible for anything"-clause
in the terms & conditions that subscribers have to accept. If
not, it would be very dangerous to set up a forum or mailing
list. Thanks for any hints, links or tricks.
Completely up to national laws and their actual enforcement.
And terms of service that go against local laws never have any
juridical power.
Yep, I thought so too. However, I wonder if there is something
that saves the moderator's a**e, else we wouldn't have so many
forums all over the world. There are countries (like GB and the
Republic of Ireland) that have very strict libel laws. Imagine
the comments under newspaper articles, if you could take the
newspaper to court for the bullsh*t some people write (libelous,
racist, insulting), there would be an avalanche of lawsuits (if
it's just to get some money).
