It's bloody hard to run a forum (in Sweden)
Source: The Register
Aftonbladet, a leading Swedish newspaper, has pulled down its online comment forums, following a court ruling this week that it was responsible for death threats against Jews posted on its site.
The posts expressing pro-Nazi prejudices were made in October 2000, but "owing to some technical problems, they were not deleted from the forum (which is moderated) for some time," Kuro5hin.org, the US tech/culture discussion site, reports.
The editors subsequently removed the posts but were charged with agitating against a religious group, apparently an offence written into the Swedish constitution (check out Kuro5hin, where quite a few posters seem to know quite a bit about Swedish legal arcana).And they were found guilty! The court ruled that Aftonbladet was responsible, as a publisher, for the comments posted on its site. Clearly, it becomes bloody difficult to run an open online forum in Sweden, if the publishers are held strictly accountable for the actions of others.
