Re: Net Libel

2000-04-12 Thread Eric Cordian
steve mynott writes: > "I'm a racist. I would say they're a clever race. I would say that as a > race they are better at making money than I am. That's a racist > remark. But they appear to be better at making money than I am. If I > was going to be crude, I would say not only are they better

Re: Net Libel

2000-04-12 Thread Steve Mynott
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:58:38PM -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: > Much of the "evidence" used to paint Irving as a "Nazi" consisted of > meticulous documentation of virtually every word he uttered since being > targeted for deconstruction after the Zundel trial, the fact that after > being attacke

Re: Net Libel

2000-04-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Bill Stewart writes: > On the other hand, today's papers report that David Irving, the > Holocaust-denying history-reviser, lost his libel lawsuit against > some people who wrote about him and the inaccuracy of his propaganda. I read the judge's findings of fact, and some background on the case.

Re: Net Libel

2000-04-01 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 01:07 PM 4/1/00 -0800, Lizard wrote: Yes, but this is the Internet, and with both you and Phil's longstanding reputations, it's easy to discount ridiculous hyperbole. I doubt anyone take Phill seriously enough that you'd have any case. I must confess that, if asked, I'd have to testify that

Net Libel

2000-04-01 Thread John Young
The NYT today reports on the UK's Demon Internet paying a wad of money to Laurence Godfrey, a physicist allegedly libeled on a news group, soc.culture.thai, first on January 12, 1997, there again later, and subsequently on uk.legal. Phill Hallam-Baker is mentioned as having been required in a