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20/06/2002 = 0 FORUM! |
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Faced with the sentencing of two French citizens in the framework of the Consumer Defense affair, the French Broadband League invites you :
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to help Franz and Emma, the two internet users (one as owner of their domain
name, the other as webmaster) sentenced for having hosted defamatory comments
posted on their site's forum.
- to summon pertaining
European ministries and the French lawmakers, so they become aware that http
forums are in danger of disappearing, and to invite them to change the law
so that domain name owners and webmasters become clearly protected in the
Future.
Send a gift :
Franz and Emma can't afford paying the 94 000 euros they must pay today: you may help them by sending them a gift at :
Comité de Soutien ŕ Franz et Emma
23 Rue Clapeyron
75008 PARIS
FRANCE
Petition :
We bring the attention of European ministers,
presently meeting in Seville, on this recent sentencing of webmasters, which
illustrates the gap separating French law from today's Internet.
French and other European countries lawmakers must quickly debate
on this problem, then suggest laws which would clearly defend webmasters
and domain name's owners. Indeed, the latter may now be sentenced for comments
published by any internet user on their site's forums.
It is impossible for any webmaster to moderate in real time
the said forums; such a threat would simply lead to closing most of these
dialogue places http forums have become.
Finally, if the French lawmaker fails to react, this jurisprudence
might set a precedent in other European countries, and the foreseeable closing
of forums might extend to Europe. The disappearance of these dialogue places
would be intolerable and deeply impair the citizen life presently developing
on the Internet.
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