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Originally Posted by Kate
I believe if the site is located on a server in the UK, then the owners of the forum can be held accountable for the content of the forum.
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This isnt always the case but the penalties are likely to be brought under UK law.. it isnt yet know if a site can be accessed via the USA or another country if the legal jurisdiction of that country may be able to bring action against a site under their laws... ie Yahoo's current litigation with the French courts over the availability of Nazi memorabiia on Yahoo's sites have lasted for well over four years now.. because it is legal precidents the cases are likely to be huge and expensive.
This means that the likes of this forum and others who are not muli billion pound websites can not afford to have these sorts of actions brought against them!