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Here in the UK new terrorism legislation has just come into force. Normally this is not the kind of thing I would post on. I am not a particularly political animal and this isn't a politics related blog. However, this particular legislation has an impact on websites hosted here in Britain.
I wonder how long it will be before the British government will be joining China in forcing Google to remove certain content
Sections 3 and 4 of the Act enable a police constable to give written notice to an organisation that a particular statement they publish electronically is unlawful, because it relates to terrorism. If the organisation does not remove or amend the statement within two working days then it will be considered to have endorsed the statement and thereafter be liable to prosecution for encouraging terrorism or disseminating terrorist publications.
For example, let's say one of you decided to post a comment on this site that was deemed by the British government to be inciting terrorism. Would it be my responsibility or the responsibility of my ISP to remove that statement? If it was my responsibility then there could be any number of reasons why I might be unable to remove the comment within two days. I would therefore be endorsing terrorism and liable to prosecution. Suddenly running a community based website or allowing others to contribute content to your site becomes a lot more risky.
Running a community based website or allowing others to contribute content to your site becomes a lot more risky... this could affect us
Host from another country then. Host it from Holland. You can do anything in Holland.
Simple though it may seem, support can be hard when hosting overseas, let along communication and also there are many tecnical benifits of hosting in your home country, or the US if you are in the UK. Also, if the web author(s) are in the UK, they are responsible for content too; as we know, Terror Legislation is very powerful, they don't need to have much evidence to step in.
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this has happened to me a few times. Through posting on forums. something called the FBI cyber snare.
I haven't heard much about this, but It seems interesting, could you tell us a little more about it from your perspective?
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