TornCasualty wrote:
As for accountability - no one is anonymous as the owners of this site know. They and their ISP are potentially liable for everything written here, hence the reason several threads have been discretely removed.
And for those who don't believe me ask JD about case law from 2000 regarding Demon Internet and Dr Lawrence Godfrey and more recently last year with UKIP candidate Michael Keith-Smith and Tracey Williams.
I would hope anyone who has read this website for any length of time will be aware of the legalities appertaining to defamation and libel etc.
I think there are ways to articulate your point without placing yourself in a tenuous legal position and most people on here do articulate extremely well. The position of TDO is that it doesn't see much point arguing with its service provider over a few words displayed on a computer screen, for the simple fact that whatever point the poster was trying to make, can be made again, albeit in different terminology. Therefore although TDO doesn't take an active roll in moderating posts before they are posted, if their service provider asked TDO to remedy a complaint then, that is what TDO will do.
Dusty explained the development with Mr. Alan G of Fastblacks quite adequately and TDO didn't remove the thread in question until their provider asked them to. TDO was not convinced that the comments in the thread amounted to defamation or libel and even though Mr. Alan G asked TDO to remove the thread we declined to do so until such time we were supplied with good reason for doing so. Mr. Alan G refused to submit a good reason and failed to inform us of what grounds he based his request. under those circumstances there was no foundation for removing the thread. The only reason the thread was removed was because Mr. Alan G wrote to the TDO service provider and it was at their request we remedied the situation.
The solution for TDO was simple and it will always remain simple because as I said, "words are only words", which can be articulated in many ways and have many meanings. Reading the past comments on this forum it would appear that many people including me have a low opinion of Mr. Alan G and yourself and that stems from what you have written. I suppose you reap what you sow when you decide to put your thoughts into written comments?
Although many might consider Mr. Alan G and perhaps yourself a pair of insignificant buffoons, TDO will always ask for an explanation of why any offending text should be removed, especially if it falls into the category of ambiguity?
It’s good to see you've been researching TDO.
It was TDO who first highlighted the cases you mention but there are other cases which you haven't mentioned that are equally important, so besides those cases we highlighted on TDO, perhaps you can advise us of the other equaly important cases that exist yet you fail to mention? Or perhaps you would prefer TDO to remind you what those cases are?
JD
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