On 12/7/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
The fact that Wikipedia's servers are primarily in
the United States
naturally caries certain legal implications. We all know that. That
the law of the United States is in any way superior is not one of those
implications. Sometime we would appreciate a little less bushshit, and
more of a recognition that the United States is only one country in the
same world as the rest of us.
However, I suspect that content producers and publishers would
convincingly argue that in the matter of libel law, the United Kingdom
is very much inferior, to the extent that British libel law is an
effective restraint on all kinds of free speech that are legal in much
of the rest of the world.
Of course, those who are frequently written about might disagree.
-Matt