Comments on: Channel 4 News’s Jon Snow in baby-eating scandal* http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/channel-4-newss-jon-snow-in-baby-eating-scandal/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:05:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: “Ben Smythe is 5ft tall” | No geek is an island http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/channel-4-newss-jon-snow-in-baby-eating-scandal/comment-page-1/#comment-45808 “Ben Smythe is 5ft tall” | No geek is an island Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:15:04 +0000 http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/channel-4-newss-jon-snow-in-baby-eating-scandal/#comment-45808 [...] we’re having a go at online news stories… The Telegraph demonstrates the problems that can come from updating an existing news [...] [...] we’re having a go at online news stories… The Telegraph demonstrates the problems that can come from updating an existing news [...]

]]> By: Gavin Whenman http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/channel-4-newss-jon-snow-in-baby-eating-scandal/comment-page-1/#comment-45802 Gavin Whenman Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:58:36 +0000 http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/channel-4-newss-jon-snow-in-baby-eating-scandal/#comment-45802 "Unlike television programmes, internet content is not subject to any legal restrictions such as the Obscene Publications Act, Sexual Offences Act, and laws relating to race hatred, defamation and libel." Yeah, that's just straight out bollocks - especially libel laws, which have been used very, very harshly against ISPs for content their customers have posted. PS. Clue to the legal ineptitude of the journo that wrote that piece: "defamation and libel" - libel is a form of defamation, so using "and" isn't correct. “Unlike television programmes, internet content is not subject to any legal restrictions such as the Obscene Publications Act, Sexual Offences Act, and laws relating to race hatred, defamation and libel.”

Yeah, that’s just straight out bollocks – especially libel laws, which have been used very, very harshly against ISPs for content their customers have posted.

PS. Clue to the legal ineptitude of the journo that wrote that piece: “defamation and libel” – libel is a form of defamation, so using “and” isn’t correct.

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