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On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Edward Finlayson wrote: > the recent state of criminal cases being prosecuted on the strength of twitter > posts etc. The cases I'm aware of involved a presumed terrorist threat and the intrusion of someone's privacy. I think don't think people should have been prosecuted for this (at all), but I doubt a disclaimer would have made a difference here. (And, say, if you made a convincing terrorist threat somewhere online, do you think a site's disclaimer should prevent you from being prosecuted?) Again, if someone with more legal knowledge than I posses can convince me that disclaimers are necessary, I'm fine with that. (Because - disclaimer - IANAL.) But just putting some disclaimer-y stuff somewhere, because the Internet can get you into trouble, isn't going to make a difference. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq