Re: Using ad serving software for censoring news stories

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

The reason you have a First Amendment, is that you didn't get it right 
first time around. We've had freedom of speech in the UK since deep in the 
mists of time.

It's the law in the UK, that you mustn't speculate on the facts of a 
trial, in advance of the trial, because that leads to an unfair trial. 
So, for example, when the Home Secretary said "We've caught the main 
plotters", he was skating on *very* thin ice. He should have said "We have 
arrested several people who are alleged to be plotting ..."

You can't say "The were plotting to blow up" because that's assuming their 
guilt, and in the UK, there's a presumption of innocence until proven 
guilty in a court of law. Newspapers can't assume guilt.

Surely you have a similar law in the USA?

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 rms () bsf-llc com wrote:

> http://tinyurl.com/epsnh
>  
> August 29, 2006
>
> Times Withholds Web Article in Britain 
>
> By TOM ZELLER Jr.
>
> If Web readers in Britain were intrigued by the headline "Details Emerge in
> British Terror Case," which sat on top of The New York Times's home page
> much of yesterday, they would have been disappointed with a click. 
>
> "On advice of legal counsel, this article is unavailable to readers of
> nytimes.com in Britain," is the message they would have seen. "This arises
> from the requirement in British law that prohibits publication of
> prejudicial information about the defendants prior to trial." 
>
> In adapting technology intended for targeted advertising to keep the article
> out of Britain, The Times addressed one of the concerns of news
> organizations publishing online: how to avoid running afoul of local
> publishing laws.
>
> "I think we have to take every case on its own facts," said George Freeman,
> vice president and assistant general counsel of The New York Times Company.
> "But we're dealing with a country that, while it doesn't have a First
> Amendment, it does have a free press, and it's our position that we ought to
> respect that country's laws." 
>
> ...
>
>
>
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