[Tfug] Webpage outside US

[Andrew Ayre]

If it's your opinion, and you state it as such, then I don't think it is 
slander. If it is not your opinion then I would expect a paper to cite 
references to back up the claims made.

Andy

sitkaa at email.arizona.edu wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> The relative jurisprudence of the various countries (including the US) 
> concerns
> me. Although what I write can be inflammatory, I have no wish to be 
> slanderous.
> In my paper, for instance, I had been asked to offer up an informed opinion of
> several sustainability foils. That this opinion could seen as slander is
> disconcerting since I have no positive way to relate rogues and scoundrels as
> anything but. Do you?
> 
> As for whther the electrons bouncing around the net are more or less 
> sustainable
> in Switzerland, China, Zimbabwe, or Arizona to any substantive degree, I don't
> see it.
> 
> m
> 
> 
> Quoting Brian Murphy <murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu>:
> 
>> I personally would keep it in the US.  The jurisprudence of foreign
>> nations are unknown to the majority of Americans.  Most other
>> first-world countries don't even have a strong freedom of speech law
>> like our constitution provides.  For example, are you versed in how
>> Switzerland would treat slander?  I'd also worry that non-citizens
>> would have less legal rights than the local boys.  And in the event
>> that you were to break a US and/or Swiss law, Switzerland and the US
>> have judicial assistance treaties.
>>
>> Quite ironically, these concerns don't even account for the
>> "sustainability" of the US IT sector by shipping your site overseas.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> Quoting sitkaa at email.arizona.edu:
>>> There is nothing illegal on my website. Take a look yourself. It is
>>> just my work
>>> on my thesis, being helped by various family and friends.
>>>
>>> I was thinking of hosting the website outside of the country because 
>>> I wanted
>>> to. That's all. I was thinking of Geneva because that is where the UN is.
>>>
>>> There is abunch here to look at.
>>>
>>> m
>>>
>>>
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>> The opinions or statements expressed herein are my own and should not be
>> taken as a position, opinion, or endorsement of the University of
>> Arizona.
>>
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Andy
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