If the medium/site weren't there, the abuse/harassment wouldn't have happened.

And if my grandmother had wheels, she's be a wagon.

There is absolutely NO WAY that a provider can possibly know 100% of what goes on in their system, especially a big system. They can't read every email, they can't read every Usenet post, they can't visit every web page that their users put online and recheck every time there's an update. It's not technically possible, and the manpower it would take is beyond reasonable.

I can get the "you were asked to remove it and you didn't" argument, but holding an ISP liable because some random jackass posts something mean in a forum or on Usenet through their service is ridiculous.

And "removing" something from Usenet... That's just nonsense. Yes, the local ISP can pull the article from their local news server, but it's still on THOUSANDS of servers around the world, so what's the point? It'd be like forcing some random city newspaper not to print something while every other newspaper in the world is publishing it. What good does it actually do?

bonni Message edited on: 03/07/2006 17:42

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