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Where Are You Publishing?

Posted by timothy on from the from-au-to-zw dept.

AndrewRUK writes "A reporter for The Guardian is being prosecuted in Zimbabwe for a report that appeared on the newspaper's website, the newspaper writes in this report. If the case is successful, it would allow Zimbabwe's courts to apply the country's draconian media laws to any online publisher, putting reporters and editors at risk of arrest if they go to Zimbabwe, or any country with extradition treaties with Zimbabwe. Once again, we see a case which raises the question of which courts have jurisdiction over online publishing. Is a UK newspaper, with webservers in the UK, and a site accessable to anyone on the net, publishing only in the UK, or is it publishing everywhere where there's net access?" An issue that just doesn't seem to go away ...

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  1. Re:If someone's stupid enough by vegetablespork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know which is worse. That you posted it, or that I can read it.

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  2. Well... by cirby · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...since you put it in those particular words, you'd have a chance of being prosecuted for public use of profanity in any number of countries if this were accepted practice worldwide.

  3. Simple solution by Pedrito · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just one more example of why the U.S. should just nuke all the other countries and let God figure it out. Sure, we'll have a nuclear winter to deal with, but we Americans are a hearty bunch. And sure, it'll make most of the world unliveable, but hey, when the nuclear winter subsides in a few thousand years, there will still be the U.S.