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[[User:FrankFlanagan|FrankFlanagan]] ([[User talk:FrankFlanagan|talk]]) 20:36, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

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:The then-Foundation lawyer, Mike Godwin, posted a comment in 2009 about whether a reviewer could be held legally liable for approving an edit [[Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_revisions/Archive_8#Legal_liability_under_a_sighter_system|here]]. Essentially it's possible but no-one really knows. '''''<font color="#FF0000">[[User:Hut 8.5|<b style="color:#FF0000;">Hut 8.5]]</fontb>''']]'' 17:56, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

::I pointed this out above in one of my bullets arguing against Position 2. Also Wikipedia is hosted in the United States and would fall under that set of laws, as opposed to the European Union's. (This would not prevent European reviewers from potentially getting in trouble, mind.) —<font color="228B22">[[User:Jéské Couriano|''Jeremy'']] [[User talk:Jéské Couriano|v^_^v]]</font> ^{<small>[[Special:Contributions/Jéské Couriano|Bori!]]</small>} 18:58, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

:::For an overview of some of the issues see chapter 3 of [http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/journalistica/article/download/3832/5100 Caution! You are now exercising editorial control]. I note, by way of example, that an Italian court has handed down suspended jail sentences to US based Google executives, although it is understood that that case is under appeal, see [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8533695.stm Google bosses convicted in Italy]. [[User:FrankFlanagan|FrankFlanagan]] ([[User talk:FrankFlanagan|talk]]) 21:04, 12 April 2012 (UTC)