CACIB Troubles
Country Watch: Britain6/5/2000; 7:15:29 AM April 17, 2000: I hope that Britain's example of how badly things can go wrong when you rule that content providers are responsible for content sends a clear warning to other countries (and courts!) who might consider ruling this way. Slashdot today has an article about the British site that's protesting the Godfrey result and the subsequent wild censoring, the Campaign Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain. The CACIB had to run to the United States because their British ISP shut them down, fearing they would libel someone!One wonders if the ISP didn't think at least a little about the legitimacy that might give the organization... but nevertheless, the ISP is on the right side of the law... and that's horrible.