Australian Court OKs International Net-Defamation Suit

Proud to be unAustralian writes: "Australian IT reports that a landmark court ruling puts Internet publishers around the world on notice that they can be sued under Australia's strict defamation laws -- and effectively in any of the 190 nations where defamation proceedings can be brought." entrippy contributes a link to another article on the case running at The Age.

Reader Diabolus notes that "it is unlikely that this same success would have occurred under American law. This occurred despite the site being hosted in America. It seems that RMS' nightmare 'Harm from the Hague' has come to pass even before that treaty is signed."

Comments

A Message from a Troll to the Slashdot Editors!

[egg troll]

There are going to be trolls on any community forum. No matter how much you try to block us out, we'll keep posting. The Slashdot editors just need to accept this and move on. By trying to clamp down, you only make us work even harder to post.

Notice all the ASCII art on here? A direct result of Taco's lame Lameness Filter. Now that links are put in brackets, people work even harder to get around it and are succeeding in ways they never had before. Previously people would look at their browser to see what the link they were clicking on lead to. Now that Slashdot is doing that for them, it makes trolling even easier.

Plus you insult everyone's intelligence by having that douchebag Jon Katz continue to post. This vapid waste of space has nothing to say and takes paragraphs to get there. He's a one-trick pony and unfortunately that pony isn't very good, like the annoying uncle who keeps playing Gotcher Nose with the children.

The more you try to keep down the trolls, the more we're going to rise up and say FUCK YOU to the bullshit editors of this site. If you wanna see a community site thats properly run, go look at fark.com. Come back when you finally understand people, editors.

True Facts

[Anonymous Coward]

The wives of all Australian judges are prostitutes, and the judges all abuse cocaine. They make legal rulings by flipping coins, because they are too busy showing printouts of goatsecx to small children to do any real work.

Re:How about two new moderation categories?

[Anonymous Coward]

Go suck your mother's dick you piss-assed piece of flyshit!

Re:Glad I left Australia

[Anonymous Coward]

I, the Anonymous Coward, know for a fact that Joseph Gutnick is a closet homosexual who wears womens' underwear while beating children and exposing his miniscule penis. His family and his football club are conspiring to have him rubbed out because he is a pompous annoying gasbag who is worth more dead than alive.

OK, Aussie government-spawned-by-England's-rejects, come and get me.

PS I have a video of Bill Gates and Joseph Gutnick eviscerating a penguin while wearing horns in a pentagram.

Nice fucking filter, Taco!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, real fucking nice Lameness Filter, Taco, you idiot bitch. I can't even end a comment with an elipsis and a frowny face, but these morons can post ASCII art all fucking day.

Where did you learn to code? KMart?

Right

[wiredog]

It's not like we do much business with them anyway. Besides, they're all French anyway. Wait, that's those sneaky Canadians. The Aussies are all descended from criminals, and us True Amurrken types have Zero Tolerance for criminals! Especially ones who pirate ships.

more libel and defamation!

[Maditude]

http://joseph.gutnick.wasarrested.com/

http://joseph.gutnick.isgay.com/

Re:Glad I left Australia

[panadol_sandwich]

Here's something to think about - noone wants you back