[governance] South Africa: Hate speech on Facebook can be prosecuted, Court rules

[Eric Dierker]

It is good that we have 500 years of jurisprudence to deal with just such matters.
 
Anyone care to give definitions for the following using strictly 2010 data?
 
1. Writer
2. Publisher
3. Re-publisher
4. Editor
 
Clearly the new Internet requires new regulations that set standards for legal and industrial compliance. In olden views if A said D was a whore, and B repeated it to C -- Then both A&B were "guilty" of Defamation. Likewise if A paper published B saying D was a whore and new damn well that D was not,,,, both BandA could be "guilty" of defamation. Of course truth does not change the defamation but simply is a defense. Now when this list monitors and censors content and then republishes my defamatory remarks regarding A --- well as it stands now the list is at least liable.


--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com>
Subject: [governance] South Africa: Hate speech on Facebook can be prosecuted, Court rules
To: 
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 12:19 PM


Dear All

Those who generate, or allow hate speech to be posted on Facebook, can
be prosecuted in SA, even though the servers are hosted outside the
country, lawyers say.

A post calling for the killing of white people was posted recently on
the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) Facebook page. Group administrator
Anwar Adams has refused to take the post down.

http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30808&catid=182&A=EBU&S=Legal%20View&O=E&E=correia.rui@gmail.com
http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30804&catid=182&A=EBU&S=Legal%20View&O=E&E=correia.rui@gmail.com

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Rui Correia
Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Consultant
Angola Liaison Consultant
2 Cutten St
Horison
Roodepoort-Johannesburg,
South Africa
Tel/ Fax (+27-11) 766-4336
Mobile (+27) (0) 84-498-6838
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