Wackypedia dodges defamation claims
Weren't us what did it, guv
A DEFAMATION CASE against Wikipedia has been dismissed by a New Jersey judge.
The case was filed by US literary agent Barbara Bauer and her business, the Barbara Bauer Literary Agency, after an entry on the site allegedly described the company as one of the 20 worst literary agents and her as "the dumbest of the 20 worst" with "no documented sales at all."
The Hon Jamie S. Perri, JSC agreed with Wikipedia's assertion that the claims were baseless, dismissing all charges.
The online encyclopaedia's lawyers argued that, under the Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act, a site is immunised from liability for statements made by its users.
Instead complainants are supposed to go after the people who made the remarks, not the site they were posted on.
The ruling has been described as a "victory for free speech and user-generated content" by the digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), who acted as legal counsel on the case.
According to the EFF, this ruling further strengthens the case for sites like Wikipedia, Craigslist and (cough!) The INQUIRER to continue to include user-generated content without living in fear of costly lawsuits, at least in the US that is. µ
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"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"
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Congratulations, Drashek
You really are changing your style, aren't you ?Looks like this summer has been rife with code changes for the gobbledygook script you use.
Well done - except that it's still nonsense.