Re: Shutting down the Off the Wall (was: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items ...)

[Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org>]

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On 2020.12.12 14:47, Aaron Bauman wrote:
> 
> 
> On December 12, 2020 8:24:44 AM EST, Roy Bamford
> <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >On 2020.12.12 12:07, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
> >> > I have a major concern with the concept of the council
> >> > deciding to close any part of the forum. Its like this ...
> >> > At present, Gentoo is a common carrier, like the mail.
> >> > The content of letters and parcels is of little concern to the
> >> > carrier.
> >> > 
> >> > Gentoos status could be changed by a council decision to
> >> > close any part of the forum from common carrier to publisher,
> >> > were the council seen to be exercising editorial control.
> >> > Being a publisher makes Gentoo liable for the published
> >> > content. Gentoo could not run the forums at all under those
> >> > conditions.
> >> 
> >> This is misinformation at best, and deliberate confusion sowing at
> >> worst. 
> >> 
> >> I assume that you're talking about the US legal situation. [#]
> >> 
> >
> ><snip totally irrelevant material>
> >
> >> [...]
> >> ====================
> >> https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
> >> 
> >> Cheers.
> >> 
> >> 
> >>
> > 
> ><snip references>
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Andreas K. Hüttel
> >> dilfridge@gentoo.org
> >> Gentoo Linux developer 
> >> (council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
> >
> >
> >Rule 1 is never assume.
> >That makes the rest of your post irrelevant. 
> >
> >In the UK, which selfishly, is all that matters to me, if I compile 
> >and edit a community newsletter, I'm the publisher, with all the
> >liabilities 
> >of a publisher. Like, say, the News of the World. I have editorial 
> >control and am liable for the content.
> >
> >When someone distributes that same newsletter by putting it
> >through the village letterboxes, they have no liability for the
> >content.
> >
> >In the same vein, is the council accidentality, through ignorance or
> >otherwise, in danger of making Gentoo a publisher, with all the 
> >attached liability for content?
> >
> >I don't know the answer either.   
> >
> >Oh, the  News of the World folded after a lawsuit related to an
> >article it published.
> 
> This doesn't correlate. The problem is and has been, the content is
> not aligned with our community values and standards. 
> 
> Simple enough. No need for legal shenanigans, liability, etc. 
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> 
> 

0/20 for answering a question I didn't ask and not addressing the 
one I did.

Care to try addressing the liability question?
I don't care about the US or from 1-Jan-21, the EU. 

I'm in the UK so that's the jurisdiction that applies to me.
 
-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
(Neddyseagoon) a member of
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