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."

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Re:A Message from a Slashdot Editor to the Trolls!

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"The article, titled Unholy Gains, described the mining magnate as a "devious businessman" who was one of the main customers of jailed US money launderer and tax evader Nucham Goldberg."

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Re:How about two new moderation categories?

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Re:This is great!

[Perrin-GoldenEyes]

Quote: The US is opposing this, but the UN claims to only need 60 countries to sign on to affect the others.

The real question regards the US administration if and when the UN does pass such a piece of shit resolution. If the administration has the balls to refuse to follow the resolution, who's gonna do something about it. The US is the bulk of the military might that enforces (or doesn't) US resolutions. Take the situation in Israel, for example. The resolutions instructing Israel to withdraw from the occupied teritory are exactly the same kind of resolutions (though much older) as the one demanding Iraq withdraw from Kuait. Guess which one nobody cares about. I wonder whether that could have something to do with Israel being "our friends." So who's gonna come get me when I violate a law from somewherethefuckistan? I'm starting to think that the US really should withdraw from the UN. OTOH, the permanent seat on the security council is useful.