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Re: Defamation

From Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Subject Re: Defamation
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Date 2015-10-20 16:44 +0200
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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In a message of Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:09:18 +1100, "Steven D'Aprano" writes:
>On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:28 am, Laura Creighton wrote:
>
>> Actually, this one was part of a huge set of defaming articles sent a
>> year ago we were requested to remove, and did.  European Law may
>> require us to do so.  I checked, and this article wasn't one on
>> our list, which is why we missed this one.

>Today we're removing allegedly defaming posts because European law may or
>may not apply (probably doesn't); tomorrow we're removing posts because
>they fall foul of unreasonable laws anywhere in the world.

No, we are removing them because we want to.  

>The point is, obeying laws that don't apply, even if well-meaning, opens us
>to a dangerous precedent that we shouldn't go near.

Pointedly not doing something you want to because it might make us
obedient to some law we don't have to obey seems a matter of
cutting off ones nose to spite one's face.

>There's another reason to try very, very hard to avoid deleting archived
>posts: until such time as python.org moves to Mailman3, deleting a single
>posts breaks the permalinks for *every single post* for the entire month.

No, I think we were smarter than that in the script.

>Steven

Laura

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Re: Defamation Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-19 18:28 +0200
  Re: Defamation Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-21 00:09 +1100
    Re: Defamation Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de> - 2015-10-20 15:46 +0200
    Re: Defamation Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-20 16:44 +0200
      Re: Defamation Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-21 10:30 +1100
        Re: Defamation Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-21 08:53 +0200
        Re: Defamation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-10-21 04:01 -0400
        Re: Defamation Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de> - 2015-10-21 11:52 +0200
    Re: Defamation "John O'Hagan" <mail@johnohagan.com> - 2015-10-22 11:45 +1100
      Re: Defamation Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-23 02:17 +1100
    Re: Defamation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 19:05 +1100
    Re: Defamation "John O'Hagan" <mail@johnohagan.com> - 2015-10-22 21:10 +1100
    Re: Defamation Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 11:33 +0100
    Re: Defamation Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-22 13:19 +0200
    Re: Defamation Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-22 13:36 +0200
    Re: Defamation Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 12:59 +0100
    Re: Defamation "John O'Hagan" <mail@johnohagan.com> - 2015-10-23 10:03 +1100
    Re: Defamation John O'Hagan <research@johnohagan.com> - 2015-10-23 09:59 +1100

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