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[quote name="Fussbett"]<a href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1737001,00.html" target="ohnoes">http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1737001,00.html</a> All those people Jhoh ordered to be executed on the White House lawn will soon be filing claims. "You honor, he said I was a faggot on a scale which cannot be corrected. Clearly, however, the scale <i>can</i> be corrected". Fortunately Jhoh has a counter-suit pending against the Gay Ball Brudders guy. [quote]"That is when it started getting out of control. I was called a lard brain and a sex offender and my wife was called a prostitute," Mr Smith said.[/quote] Lard brain gets first billing. [quote]"I'm happy with the judge's ruling, but firms hosting online chat rooms should be prepared to get involved and step in to moderate defamatory statements. I considered suing Yahoo! but their discussion board is hosted in the US and falls outside UK law.[/quote] This guy has some really great ideas for how the internet should be run. No lard is <i>his</i> brain, that's for sure. [quote]In 2000, the internet service provider Demon agreed to pay Laurence Godfrey £15,000 plus legal costs after allegedly defamatory postings about him appeared in newsgroups.[/quote] What? So UK law is totally out of control then?[/quote]