Posted by IsoM on October 24, 2002, at 14:07:12
In reply to Re: Don't forget something here Lou » tina, posted by Lou Pilder on October 24, 2002, at 13:49:43
Yes, Lou, you DO shed your average American rights on the internet. It's an international site & just because someone's American, British, Polish, Russian, or WHATEVER, it's not something that can be monitored like a tangible, physical country. The internet is a virtual community - there are very few guidelines & there's no way to properly police the internet.
So what it boils down to is ultimately the person who's set up the site, polices it. That person is then answerable to the server that hosts the site. In this case, it's Bob's university. But then that university is answerable to the state & country that it's in. But the individual posters are NOT liable to the state or country where the server is.
It's VERY difficult to make laws that can actually have teeth to them concerning the internet. It's a major concern of many countries of what can & cannot be put on the net. Check it out. Read over the articles written about this.
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