Re: The Color Purple
Re: The Color Purple
- Subject: Re: The Color Purple
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:40:09 +0100
On 31 Mar 2006, at 7:14 pm, Andrew Rodney wrote:
On 3/31/06 11:04 AM, "Martin Orpen" wrote:
But they'd be foolish if they haven't got some kind of policy worked
out because publishing defamatory information can be rather costly -
It appears at sign up to this list, a name is optional (maybe that
should be
corrected). Of course you can pop a bogus name in there...
The terms of the list (below) seem pretty clear cut and while some
might
totally disagree with the poster's opinions, I don't see anything
he/she did
that would warrant banning. It's an opinion, nothing more.
[snip]
As I said, "Apple would be foolish not to have a policy" and, as
there is nothing in the T&C covering defamation - maybe they are?
More likely, they just assume that they aren't going to get anonymous
posters making defamatory remarks about people and businesses?
But, like I said, I'll leave the banning to Apple. I'm always wary of
anonymous posts because they tend to contain stuff that accountable
people wouldn't normally say. And this poster isn't disproving my
assumption:
Message-Id: <email@hidden>
Bear in mind that David Pogue is not an engineer, he's just a
glorified tech
support rep who happened to have a column deadline. If he actually
researched and wrote every single one of the books that carry his
name, he
wouldn't have enough free time to sit around signing them at
tradeshows.
Message-Id: <email@hidden>
Did you honestly, purposely type "Yr" in a business communication?
Message-Id: <email@hidden>
It's such an overpriced bottle of snake oil with such a purposely
ambiguous
and horribly designed web site devoid of factual information, I'm
surprised
the ColorEyes logo isn't anywhere on the package.
I won't bother quoting yesterday's missive, but I thought I'd let you
all know that I received an off-list message from our anonymous
friend which called into question my knowledge of defamation.
Calling to account the legal knowledge of a repro guy like me is
certainly worthwhile for a bit of posturing - after all, IANAL and
all that... But, unfortunately for them, I do have direct experience
of these things.
I was once reckless enough to publish some comments about the
services of another business on a web site. And, unlike the majority
of people on this list, have stood in the dock at the High Court in
London to answer for those comments.
I wouldn't recommend the experience to anybody. Being one of the
first people in the UK to get sued for defamation (this was 1997) for
comments made on a web site offers *a little* kudos - but not enough
to make up for the stressful reality of the High Court :-(
For those of you who aren't aware (but may be curious why so many US
citizens are keen to issue defamation suits from Merry Old England)
we operate a different system here to that in the US. If you make a
claim that some company's product is sub-standard, borrowed or
rubbish etc and you get sued, it is *you* that has to justify every
claim you made beyond a reasonable doubt.
If you can't, you lose.
Anyhow, can we get back to colour stuff now?
PS. Suggesting that Apple *should* have policy on this matter was a
little naive of me. They just love losing massive amounts of money in
the UK courts. Wonder if it'll be 4th time unlucky for them, again?
--
Martin Orpen
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