Some interesting developments have happened overnight. Nadine Dorries has seen the blog part of her website instantly taken down after she made allegations against the owners of the Telegraph Group, Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay.Lawyers acting for the Barclay brothers, Withers, instructed the takedown carried out by Acidity via mail to Coreix last night, citing the Acceptable User Policy. The takedown will be bolstered by the Godfrey vs Demon precendent, where an order can be made and it will be done instantly. <snip> Update II: Interesting to note that the day after Nadine makes allegations that the Telegraph has a hidden proprietor driven agenda to drive votes to UKIP (I repeat this is an allegation not a proven truth), her blog gets taken down by lawyers and then this morning's Telegraph carries not only more expenses scandals but a gushing piece about UKIP.
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Update II: Interesting to note that the day after Nadine makes allegations that the Telegraph has a hidden proprietor driven agenda to drive votes to UKIP (I repeat this is an allegation not a proven truth), her blog gets taken down by lawyers and then this morning's Telegraph carries not only more expenses scandals but a gushing piece about UKIP.
After that, as the British Society of Homeopaths learned to their discomfort, it's two or three e-mails away from being up on half a dozen foreign sites.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Because the first thing I'd do if I were going to tighten the ability of Bad People to retroactively censor the internet would be to sic Stasi 2.0 on Google to make them stop showing their cache to the general public. And I don't trust Google not to fold - they have too big commercial interests at stake, and their policy on legal threats, like bogus copywrong claims from IFPI, has been "better safe than sorry."
