Didou
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The internet must be seen by many companies as gold mine & a cheap way to make quick money. The comments posted on those forums were only stories of the bad service they got with that online site ( I won't give the name, you can imagine why... ).
Let's say today I order from a site like Crucial & if I get bad service it would actually be illegal for me to talk about it here, risking to get the forums shutdown & all ?
Faced with the sentencing of two French citizens in the framework of the Consumer Defense affair, we call for a boycot of all newsgroups on the 06/20/2002.
These two French citizens have been sentenced to pay 94,000 Euros, one of them as owner of a domain name, the other as webmaster, due to the presence of defamatory messages posted on their site's forum. It follows that all forums are now at risk: If, at any time, an anonymous internet user publishes personnal opinions, the webmaster and/or the owner of the URL will be liable for sentencing, and the forum will be closed.
On the 06/20/2002, we therefore urge all webmasters to direct their visitors to a petition page, and to close their site's forums, if needed. On this petition page, we call for financial contributions which will help support the two sentenced French. European internet users will thus be able to sign a petition increasing the lawmaker's awareness of these problems, and encouraging him to propose laws clearly protecting URL's owners and webmasters. Webmasters will find all necessary information to prepare for this protest on the Kit-Webmasters page
The internet must be seen by many companies as gold mine & a cheap way to make quick money. The comments posted on those forums were only stories of the bad service they got with that online site ( I won't give the name, you can imagine why... ).
Let's say today I order from a site like Crucial & if I get bad service it would actually be illegal for me to talk about it here, risking to get the forums shutdown & all ?