Where Are You Publishing?

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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Hey EU hows that international court going?

[gelfling]

This is the kind of horseshit that causes people and countries to refuse to comply with 'international courts and tribunals'.

Everyone thinks the whole world is as civilized as they are but they're not. So what we should do is if one of our citizens is extradited and imprisoned in Zimbabwe, we should arrest and imprison every Zimbabwean living here and cut off all diplomatic relations with the country that extradited that person, with and economic embargo to follow.