Re: Libel tourism
"So Wright tried libel tourism"
Is that what suing someone in your own country is called now?
A self-described "blockchain expert" claiming to be the inventor of Bitcoin has had his attempt to sue a YouTuber, who made a video rubbishing that claim, laughed out of the UK High Court. Craig Wright, an Australian-born computer scientist and citizen of Antigua & Barbuda who lives in Surrey, in southeast England, lost a …
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"He happens to be living in Surrey now, but the judges accepted the argument that this was incidental to where the alleged defamation actually took place."
He lives in Surrey. Right, so we agree that he is ordinarily resident in the UK. So it isn't tourism to use your home court. My partner is German; should she have to go back to Germany to sue someone?
Note that Wright has been (successfully) sued in the US, despite not being born there, a national there, or living there. To call this libel tourism is bullshit.
(I'm not saying he's right, I'm saying it's not libel tourism to sue someone in your local court.)
The issue which both the High Court and the Court of Appeal had to examine was not where the claimant (Wright) was based, but where the defendant was. This was due to section 9 of the Defamation Act 2013 which says: "9. Action against a person not domiciled in the UK or a Member State etc
(1) This section applies to an action for defamation against a person who is not domiciled—
(a) in the United Kingdom;
(b) in another Member State; or
(c) in a state which is for the time being a contracting party to the Lugano Convention.
(2) A court does not have jurisdiction to hear and determine an action to which this section applies unless the court is satisfied that, of all the places in which the statement complained of has been published, England and Wales is clearly the most appropriate place in which to bring an action in respect of the statement." As Roger Ver has virtually no connection with England and Wales or the EU, the outcome is unsurprising.
Ver is a US citizen
Not since he renounced his citizenship six years ago.
And was then in 2015, according to Wikipedia, "denied a visa to reenter the United States by the U.S. Embassy in Barbados, which claimed that he had not sufficiently proven ties outside of the United States that would motivate him to leave at the end of his visit, causing fears he might become an illegal immigrant." Hilarious.
OK, I might be forgetting my recent history here. But I was under the impression that, in the UK, if even a small number of people in the UK viewed a website/video/whatever, it was considered to be 'published' in the UK for the purposes of libel. Maybe there's something different about this particular case, or maybe I'm remembering wrongly.
The end sounded good to me, too. I don't have any cryptocurrency (well, I have enough to buy an individual paper clip at market prices), but it doesn't hurt to provide that functionality. What doesn't sound good is the other side, which is conveniently left out of their statement. According to the Wikipedia page, Brave removes others' ads, then inserts some of their own (no thanks). Also, the cryptocurrency system uses their own rewards system which doesn't sound at all dodgy. I'll stick to a normal browser, thanks.
It's rarely a good start when the major feature of a software product is something I want to switch off. Adding things is different--a normal browser with an adblocker originally just shows everything, and I'm adding the functionality to remove some of those things. A browser that inserts other things is probably made by people who are willing to do that in other areas too, and thus it falls down in trust. How do I know there won't be other dodgy features that I would like to switch off but either I can't or I don't get informed about their existence. At least with a basic browser, I know what features it has.
"There is absolutely no need to email him offering him free "currency", entry to pyramid schemes, or indeed anything else at all related to any cryptocurrency, blockchain or similar. This advice applies in particular to PR agencies, marketers and those dodgy people who try to score SEO backlinks through desperate and shady means."
Interesting ... Didn't know you guys were harassed by those scum ...