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Canadian Court Reverses Net Publication Ruling

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bad-precedent-dismissal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Canadian appellate court has reversed an earlier ruling that had media companies worldwide fearing an Internet publication chill. A lower court had asserted jurisdiction over the Washington Post based solely on an article published years earlier that was available on the Post's website. That decision attracted the attention of companies such as Reuters and Yahoo!, who appealed what was viewed as a dangerous Internet jurisdiction case."

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  1. Fire the Judge by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    ...reversing the lower court' s ruling that asserted jurisdiction over the Post in a dispute over an article published in 1997.

    The judge in the lower court should be removed - permanently - from the bench. Any judge that dumb shouldn't be deciding any cases!

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  2. Big surprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    An Ontario based court rules against freedom of speech?

    Who'd have thought that a part of Canada that forces their propaganda on the rest of the country (using a government owned brodcasting company) would be against freedom of speech?

  3. Re:What's the best country by NeedleSurfer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah hate speech laws are bad, I mean I'd really like to live in a place were I could just incite people to burn niggers and gas jews...

    fucking dumbass american trash, wait... isn't that hate speech? Then again, since you like it, might as well give it a try... USA prick