"social medical forum"? On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 10:55, Tom Worthington <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25/6/19 10:45 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote: > > > Possibly this new ruling regarding defamatory remarks is also > > applicable to Link etc? ... > > By a remarkable coincidence, this was just released: > > LINKALEERT - THE LINK INSTITUTE > > Institute Moves Offshore to Avoid Social Media Liability > > Dateline: Pvcee Atoll, 26 June 2019 > > The Link Institute today announced it had moved its Internet server to > the newly established independent nation of LinkLand, on the artificial > atoll of Pvcee. > > Institute director, Professor Klerphell, said that they were activating > contingency plans put in place in the event the judge ruled media > companies were responsible for defamatory remarks on their social media > platforms. > > "We have been worried about this possibility for some time. Our > Chinese > engineering subsidiary was able to apply its artificial island > construction skills, together with materials from our Australian waste > recycling arm, to build Pvcee Atoll in the mid Pacific. As we have > declared independence, our servers are now outside Australian > jurisdiction." > > Professor Klerphell slammed the Judges decision: > > "Just because our organization set up a social medical forum for > commercial purposes, and encouraged people to say whatever they want, we > do not believe we can be held responsible for the outcome. We were as > shocked as anyone by what some of the trolls, racists and bigots wrote > on our 'Trolls, Racists and Bigots Free-for-all Forum'. However, our > revenue stream is based on stirring up division in society, and without > that controversy we can't make large profits." > > The Link Institute went on to condemn Australia for failing to protect > companies profiting from free discussion of ideas. Klerphell went on to > say: > > "What next, are cinemas to discourage people from shouting 'Fire!' > in a > crowded room? Are we not to allow radio personalities to instigate race > riots? Are we to ban selling guns to children? What sort of nanny state > are we heading towards?" > > ENDS > > ;-) > > > -- > Tom Worthington, MEd FHEA FACS CP http://www.tomw.net.au +61(0)419496150 > TomW Communications Pty Ltd. PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia > Liability limited by a scheme approved under Prof. Standards Legislation > > Honorary Lecturer, Computer Science, Australian National University > https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/profile/tom-worthington > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
