Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement

Re:Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an ... by throwaway_yy2Di on Sunday January 19, 2014 @02:29PM (#7085597)

"but your claim seems to be solely on the fact you can commit libel from what seems to be the USA on a website not hosted in the UK."

We're sidetracked, but that's pretty much the definition of libel tourism, and the UK is notorious for it:

http://www.economist.com/node/12903058

The UK routinely finds libel judgements against non-Britons, outside of Britain, having essentially no connection with the UK. It's an extremely broken system responsible for widespread legal harassment outside of Britain (examples in article).

It's not enforceable in the US obviously. There's a US law that explicitly prohibits that, provoked by a particularly egregious case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act

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Re:Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an ... by arethuza on Sunday January 19, 2014 @02:51PM (#7085689)

Nitpick: You're talking about England and Wales, not the UK. In this part of the UK it's not even called "libel".

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Re:Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an ... by throwaway_yy2Di on Sunday January 19, 2014 @03:35PM (#7085878)

Thanks, didn't know this!

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Re:Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an ... by arethuza on Monday January 20, 2014 @04:29AM (#7088463)

It's OK - I believe the French used to have saying along the lines of "As touchy as a Scot"... :-)

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