Re: Note - ISP Screwed Up - Can WRITE But Not SEE

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

 Again though the "liability" issue for un-PC content.  It's sort of
 a prob in the USA but a much bigger prob in the EU and beyond.  As
 said, such a system needs to be located in a
 who-knows/cares-country where it's hard to get at legally.

 
In europe I would not worry about it at all.

Europe is, sadly, one place where if you are in the wrong locality, you
*very much* have to worry about it.

First of all, no one in power even knows what usenet is, so no one
will ever look.

No, but the 'busybodies', should they every notice (or be told about
it) *will* go running to the ones in power in order to tattle on you.

Third, the responsibility of the post is the posters and not yours
(at least in my jurisdiction).

That is not a common legal framework everywhere.  It is the US
framework due to the DMCA, but other world governments do not have such
liability exclusions for the site operator.

At _worst_ your responsibility is to remove the content from your
servers, if asked.  Otherwise, nothing to worry about.

Not in all countries.  In some countries, the mere fact that your
server had it, for even a millisecond, available for someone to see is
enouogh to get you, the site operator, a trip to the gulag.

Try setting up a webserver in Thiland or Indonesia and insulting the
royal family of each respective country.