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FInland Proposes Editorial Culpability for Web Content
Sandstorm writes "Electronic Frontier Finland ry has an interesting article about a proposed law in the Finnish parliament on liabilities in public communications. Among other alarming things, the proposed law would require all web publications to have an editor-in-chief, who would have a criminal responsibility for all material published in his publication. That would include discussion on web boards and force editors on sites like /. preview and censor all comments before displaying them."
You guys don't even read the stories half the time, now you're supposed to read every comment?!
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Those lazy Finns... just monitor and log all network traffic yourself, like any halfway decent government. No need to bother Joe Public with the details.