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Old 29-10-10, 12:15 PM
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There is no law against censorship. But there is for libel. In the UK if you have snow outside your door and you attempt to clear it and someone falls you are liable because you took responsibility for the whole thing as soon as you touched it. If you just leave your snow untouched and someone falls then that is their problem alone, you are not liable. Moderating blogs works the same way which is why you either don't moderate at all in which case you get spammed by nutcases and the real users fade away or you moderate pretty heavily to avoid any action, libel is the least of your worries as you can be held liable for racist, homophobic or religious hatred quite easily and these are criminal rather than civil issues.

Paul