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GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat
crush writes, "An Irish website RateYourSolicitor.com, which aims to let clients find and rate solicitors (a British Isles flavor of lawyer), has received an Irish High Court injunction to remove defamatory material about one such rated solicitor. The site is hosted by a US provider, gmax.net, which has reportedly been served notice by lawyers acting for the defamed solicitor. According to the article, GoDaddy, as the domain name registrar, has locked access to the site (registration or bugmenot required). (Amusingly, the records are all for a 'John Smith' in the Russian Federation at 'lawyercatcher@lawyer.com'!) An interesting twist to all of this is that according to the Communications Decency Act, an ISP, as a publisher, cannot be held responsible or legally liable for what their clients do. So how can GoDaddy justify this censorship? Or are registrars the weak link in a system that seems like it ought to be robust against censorship?"
It looks like GoDaddy is going to have to find an Irish solicitor.
If only there was some sort of web-based service to find and compare solicitors...
You have the Freedom of Speech. Nowhere is it written that you have Freedom of Easy-to-Access Speech
Tell me, Mr. Infernal, what good is a phone call... if you are unable to speak?
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.