Text 43697, 65 rader
Skriven 2006-12-05 16:08:00 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
  Kommentar till text 43669 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
Ärende: Insults
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Hello Roy!

On Monday December 04 2006 13:13, you wrote to me:

 RW>>> Since the site is known to belong to Shannon, he is responsible
 RW>>> for what appears on it, whether he 'typed' it or not.

 MvdV>> That may be so in the USA. Here the author is responsible for
 MvdV>> what he/she writes.

 RW> Really!? Is it not true that whatever enters Fidonet via your node is
 RW> your responsiblity and not the person who wrote it?

Only according to P4. Not according to the law. As we all know P4 does not
override the law.

 RW> (nevermind the repercussions of that act on his access to Fidonet) Is
 RW> it not true that when Felten had copyrighted material for free
 RW> download on his website,

Wrong starting point. According to the laws of his country he didn't.

 RW> the one where the host found out about it and they - being the
 RW> responsible people that they are - dropped him like a hot potato?

That host resided in the USA, not here. so wrong premise.

 RW>>> The site is known to belong to Shannon so one can safely assume
 RW>>> that he wrote it.

 MvdV>> An ASSumption nevertheless.

 RW> After further review, the comment was a bit above the ability of
 RW> Shannon to piece together such a grammatically correct statement.
 RW> Looking further,

So you admit yoiu assumption was wrong. Noted.

 MvdV>> There is no dispute about the origin of what is within the
 MvdV>> quotes. The dispute is about the selection and the
 MvdV>> interpretation of the reporter.

 RW> Which is a legtimate review taken from the annals of FidoTel's
 RW> Fidonews forum. See above for the explanation of the origin.

Legitimiate <> correct.

 MvdV>> The responsibility for the selection and interpretation
 MvdV>> is solely the reporter's.

 RW> Yeup. However, since it's on Shannon's website, it's his
 RW> responsibility to keep it all correct and in context.

If that is so then he utterly failed by allowing someone to state that Björn
hates all Christians. That is defiitely not correct.

 RW> What's there is merely one users opinion of the stupid claims of
 RW> Bjorn Forrestrom.

An anonimous user. How cowardly to hide behind an anonymous user....

Cheers, Michiel

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