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To: Allan

To be fair, I think that they're saying that anyone who "reproduces" the information, as in quotes from it, can be charged.

I doubt if they will be.


9 posted on 04/04/2005 12:50:23 AM PDT by furquhart (Peace? But there is no peace!)
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To: furquhart
That's not the way I read it.
Read the first two paragraphs again.
It says the (unnamed Canadian web site) promoted the US site
(Captain's Quarters)
not that it quoted from it.

You must realize what the climate is like in Canada.
Canadian bloggers are being cautioned not even to link to Captain's Quarters.

11 posted on 04/04/2005 1:00:54 AM PDT by Allan
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To: furquhart

PS:

This is the country
that during a famous previous publication ban
searched returning Canadians
at the US border
to make sure they were not carrying US newspapers.

I kid you not.


12 posted on 04/04/2005 1:17:21 AM PDT by Allan
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To: furquhart; Mitchell; Shermy; ARridgerunner
Further update:

I think that they're saying
that anyone who "reproduces" the information
as in quotes from it
can be charged.

No. This is not the case. To quote from the article I linked above:

"Inquiry official Francois Perreault voiced shock at the publication ban breach
and said the commission co-counsel Bernard Roy and Justice John Gomery will decide today
whether to charge the Canadian website owner with contempt of court."

The website in question would be Neale News
which is a Canadian news site
very similar in style to the Drudge Report.
that is
with links to articles
not quotations from the articles themselves.

13 posted on 04/04/2005 2:02:59 AM PDT by Allan
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