I too have been thinking/reading on this a lot: > This is really quite a big deal as: > > a) it imposes potentially very substantial obligations on those who > collect and curate "public" (open) data > b) it could entitle people to have "public-interest" info taken down (e.g. > what about info that you were a director of a fraudulent company) >
My position is that a fact is a fact and should remain so. If it's been released into the public sphere it should stay there. Secondly, putting the liability onto intermediaries rather than content owner (person/entity who made the decision to make the data public) is a dangerous precedent related to the move to make ISPs accountable for piracy (3 strikes). I wonder how much they'll charge to be able to search the unredacted > version of the web... > I hadn't thought of that and it's a good point! ties in with the FCC net neutrality issue - the public are entitled to a fast and unredacted internet. At it's most basic - the issue is with the content owner not the carriage provider. Perhaps OK should release a statement jointly with the internet archive, EFF, and others? kind regards Anna On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:48 AM, stef <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:23:27AM +0200, Rayna wrote: > > 2014-05-20 0:17 GMT+02:00 stef <[email protected]>: > > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:05:36AM +0200, Rayna wrote: > > > > Following up on Rufus's questions, I have another one: whether the > > > verdict > > > > will include a provision making public interest outweigh personal > desire. > > > > > > i don't think this matters at all. this is quite similar to the > censorship > > > of metadata linked from the piratebay. > > > > > > > I am not sure I understand the subtleties (or lackthereof) you are trying > > to convey: may you elaborate? > > both are search-engines, both provide links/metadata to 3rd party content. > if > the e-commerce directive was worth anything then there wouldn't be > intermediary liability and thus no grounds for this. > > -- > otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > -- Kind regards, Anna Daniel, PhD. Information Policy Griffith University t.: 0439 061 834 | [email protected] I ascribe to the email charter: http://emailcharter.org Disclaimer*:* this information is provided for general guidance only and does not constitute legal advice.
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