Reply to post: Re: Printer's Imprint

Australian PM and Deputy threaten Facebook and Twitter with defamation liability for users' posts

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Re: Printer's Imprint

Yes, clearly there are details to work out, but that's all your questions are. If I'm a named person publishing something then I [should] get a choice of where it is published (i.e. under what legal system as well as my own). If I'm anonymous then the publisher takes responsibility for deciding where to publish it bearing in mind that they might get prosecuted.

So I for one, if I ever publish anything other than as an Anonymous Coward, would likely choose to restrict publication to the UK, or maybe Europe as well. Not USA, Saudi or China. And the world might become a somewhat saner place as people choose to restrict how widely they publish their rants.

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