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Cash for Comments!

From Graham Stanley at http://blog-efl.blogspot.com:

Not about podcasting but certainly relevant re legalities and how safe are you if you let it all hang out on your blog or podcast?
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On Saturday there was an article published in el Pais (www.elpais.es) about
a student who has been find 400 Euros (200 according to the electronic
edition of the newspaper) because of a comment published on his blog:
http://www.mafius.com/blog

Ivan Fresneda wrote about his college, saying that it was incoherent and
absurd, complaining about the lack of newspapers in his school, and was
extremely critical of the methodology of his Philosophy teacher.

Now Ivan has been taken to court and fined because of threats to the
Philosophy teacher that were published in the comments section of this blog
post. Although the comments were published anonymously, Ivan has been held
responsible because it is his blog, and he should have let the comment be
published.

Obviously, this has repercussions for bloggers everywhere, who could
potentially be held responsible for comments published anonymously on their
blogs, and is also related to the cyber-bullying incident I wrote about
recently (http://blog-efl.blogspot.com)

posted by Michael @ 9:44 AM