Wikipedia Wins Defamation Case

Raul654 writes "Yesterday, a French judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for defamation. The judge found that 'Web site hosts cannot be liable under civil law because of information stored on them if they do not in fact know of their illicit nature.' According to the inquirer: 'Three plaintiffs were each seeking 69,000 euros ($100,000) in damages for invasion of their privacy after their homosexuality was revealed on the website.'"

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Re:I bet US courts would give a differnt verdict!!

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In other news in the US, 69.000 homosexuals joined in a defamation class action suit against 3 Frenchmen engaged in a suit claiming being identified as a homosexual was defamatory. The American gays claim damages of 1 US dollar for each homosexual in the United States and that the Frenchmen submit themselves as models to replace the goatse.cx guy after the plaintiffs finish gang-banging them. The judge ruled that the modeling requirement would be an illegal display of punishment.