Re: [ga] NC members, censorship and other absurd things

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

Liability for reposting a comment as moderator that violates some national
law.

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 02:34:58PM -0500, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Kent Crispin wrote:
> > 
> > > > in this model outside the US.
> > > 
> > > Lost me there, counselor..."conceivably" is a very broad 
> > > term...
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > I can imagine a rational legal system that would impose such liability.
> > The US does not, and I don't happen to know of a non-US one that would,
> > but I am not an expert in non-US law, so it might well exist for all I
> > know.  In short, I can "conceive" of it, but I don't "know" of it.  
> 
> I'm sorry -- I should have asked a direct question to begin with. 
> What is the "it" that you can conceive of, and what is its
> hypothetical basis?  That is, what is this potential liability?
> 
> 

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