On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:19 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > It depends on the jurisdiction where the server is located.
That would make sense. > In the US it is generally held that ISPs, list service providers, &c. > are protected by "common carrier" rules. This means that as long as > they don't exercise a priori censorship and the like they can't be > prosecuted for what shows up on customer content parts of their sites, I guess a more applicable question might be if J. Random Foreigner writes something that could be considered illegal speech in his own country, but sends it to a list server in a country where his words would be protected, who's laws apply? Or rather, who's laws should apply? -- Scott (IANAL) Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ __o _'\<,_ (*)/ (*) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
