Bloggers responsible for linked content-Slashdot
January 21, 2008
[FACT comments: Let’s repeat this for emphasis–users are responsible for the content of the webpages that they link to in their blog entries!!!!!!!!!!!]
LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links
Slashdot: August 29, 2007
Many of you might remember the previous story about LiveJournal erroneously deleting hundreds of users as suspected paedophiles, spurred on by pressure from the group, Warriors for innocence. Since then, they’ve been taking action against users hosting material on their servers that they believe to be illegal. Today, LiveJournal management have demonstrated a serious lack of understanding in how the internet works, declaring that users are responsible for the content of the webpages that they link to in their blog entries. A user points out the obvious flaw: “I get ToS’d because the link’s been redirected to a page full o’ porn, even though context clearly shows that when I originally put up the link that it didn’t actually land on a page of porn?” One wonders how such a long-established blogging company can be so ignorant about the nature of the world wide web.
