Comments on: Max Mosley versus the web

By: sweater dress

sweater dress — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:17:14 +0000

With havin so much written content do you ever run into any issues of
plagorism or copyright infringement? My site has a lot of exclusive content I’ve either written myself or outsourced but it appears a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my authorization. Do you know any techniques to help protect against content from being ripped off? I’d truly appreciate it.

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Sun, 26 Aug 2012 04:40:18 +0000

[...] 1 boss Max Mosley’s claim that the “really dangerous thing are the search engines” misunderstands entirely the [...]

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Web 2.0: Don’t shoot the messenger | Index on Censorship — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:27:51 +0000

[...] quickly enough to remove user comments that were defamatory of the Thai monarchy.Ex-Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s claim that the “really dangerous thing are the search engines” misunderstands entirely the [...]

By: interested

interested — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:21:02 +0000

It seems that Don Henley was actually trying to tell people something, I believe the song was Dirty Laundry. Could there have been some substance to the lyrics?

By: Mike Ross

Mike Ross — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:01:19 +0000

With respect to the claim that rape victims are granted anonymity under the SOA, I think you need to read the statute closely. The anonymity is NOT ‘blanket’ and the wording of the statute pretty clearly refers only to the mainstream written and broadcast media; newspapers & TV: those who draughted the legislation were wise enough to realise they couldn’t outlaw gossip and small talk.

Whether or not that law can be stretched to encompass Twitter, which is more like electronic ‘gossip’ than anything under editorial control, is very much an open, and doubtful, question in my opinion.

By: Mark Bridgeman

Mark Bridgeman — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:46:39 +0000

Mr Mosley has had a rough old time at the hands of the press and I can sympathise with his motivation, but honestly I don’t think he has thought about this enough. Search engines are not publishers, they only collate pre-existing materials into a listing which is ranked by relevence, meaning that people have to actively look on the internet and deliberately search for stories about him. Hence google/bing/yahoo or any search engine is not part of the problem. The problem is that existing laws are not enforced enough and fines are way too small where false information has been posted making them just the cost of business. Fine a guilty newspaper ten years profit then we would see the problem disapear completely, but of course this wont happen because the publishers/politicians and legal types that run big government and big business like the system the way it is. They are the problem…