Victory for Google as top judge rules it can't be held responsible for defamatory blog posts
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109349/Google-victory-judge-rules-held-responsible-defamatory-blog-posts.html#ixzz1o2jleWz9
A High Court judge has likened Google to a graffiti strewn wall in a landmark judgement which says it cannot be held responsible for libellous or offensive content.
Mr Justice Eady said the internet giant was not bound by laws governing publishers, giving the company widespread immunity from English defamation laws.
In the judgement, which will have huge implications for freedom of speech in this country, he said: ‘It is no doubt often true that the owner of a wall which has been festooned, overnight, with defamatory graffiti could acquire scaffolding and have it all deleted with whitewash.’
Defeat: Payam Tamiz, left, lost his case against Google after Mr Justice Eady, right, ruled it could not be held responsible for offensive blog posts
But he added: ‘That is not necessarily to say, however, that the unfortunate owner must, unless and until this has been accomplished, be classified as a publisher’.
The ruling came at the end of a long running defamation suit taken by a former Conservative Party hopeful and law student Payam Tamiz.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109349/Google-victory-judge-rules-held-responsible-defamatory-blog-posts.html#ixzz1o2kJslXS
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109349/Google-victory-judge-rules-held-responsible-defamatory-blog-posts.html#ixzz1o2jleWz9
A High Court judge has likened Google to a graffiti strewn wall in a landmark judgement which says it cannot be held responsible for libellous or offensive content.
Mr Justice Eady said the internet giant was not bound by laws governing publishers, giving the company widespread immunity from English defamation laws.
In the judgement, which will have huge implications for freedom of speech in this country, he said: ‘It is no doubt often true that the owner of a wall which has been festooned, overnight, with defamatory graffiti could acquire scaffolding and have it all deleted with whitewash.’
Defeat: Payam Tamiz, left, lost his case against Google after Mr Justice Eady, right, ruled it could not be held responsible for offensive blog posts
But he added: ‘That is not necessarily to say, however, that the unfortunate owner must, unless and until this has been accomplished, be classified as a publisher’.
The ruling came at the end of a long running defamation suit taken by a former Conservative Party hopeful and law student Payam Tamiz.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109349/Google-victory-judge-rules-held-responsible-defamatory-blog-posts.html#ixzz1o2kJslXS
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