date: 2016-02-04 22:37:23
Title: Websites not liable for readers' comments
> The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that
> websites are not liable for readers' comments. It ruled that
> making websites responsible for the content of the comments
> section would breach freedom of expression rights.
Utterly fantastic news! A judgement from the ECHR which
offers the promise of an end to cases like the recent risible
Patricia Casey/Irish Times settlement, where an employee
of Lolek Ltd^1, someone who has been regularly accused
of misrepresenting and mischaracterising psychological
research[1] in service of her own agenda, often by the
people whose research she is citing, won an apology and a
payment from a newspaper because some people commented that
she misrepresented research.
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[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Casey#Misrepresentation_of_research
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[^1]: Otherwise laughably known as the Iona "Institute"