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A simple recap on MumsNet about this: http://www.mumsnet.com/lw/state.html
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: ETA: Wow! I am just .... ..... IMO this should be crossposted in every single forum.
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You'll need to trim that quote up to only a few sentences before the mods spank you.
Where is the website hosted? In the US, you can't sue a host for comments by a third party.

I don't know what the law on that is in Britain. I know their standards for slander and libel are really different! For example, people can sue each other there for defamatory statements in book reviews. Things are quite different here!
Did anyone catch that she was a Maternity nurse......... OFF TOPIC, but it hits a correlative nerve here. And, I'm aloud to say it. I was a maternity nurse too.... but the majority of my peers were self serving, controlling individuals.

Could someone find out about their laws? I can not imagine not being aloud to say my opinion of someone, something, a philosophy or a theory without being worried about being sued for slander and liable. YIKES!
Some one from the UK would have to correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) say in his book something about Britain's libel laws... something like if you so much as call someone an asshat, they can sue you for libel?
So how does that work if the website is hosted in one country and somebody from another country posts to it? Do American or British libel laws apply if, for example, a British person posts on an American website? What if an American posts on a British website?

For further clarity: it sounds like simply saying "I think letting a 5mo CIO for 3 hours is inhumane" wasn't the issue here, but it turned into personal attacks on the author. None of that would fly on MDC- the thread would have been removed.
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Originally Posted by bravofrenchie
Some one from the UK would have to correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) say in his book something about Britain's libel laws... something like if you so much as call someone an asshat, they can sue you for libel?
I think you're thinking of Fast Food Nation, where there is a story about some people in the UK getting in trouble with McD's regarding libel laws.
Well something good came out of this...the website has banned discussing this writer At All!!! So no one can recommend her either. And this will hurt her book sales.
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True! And Mumsnet is being talked about everywhere here in the UK - so they are gaining popularity


Interesting point here too:

"I wonder how much of Ms Ford's sense-of-humour failure has to do with the potential threat that free community advice sites such as Mumsnet offer to commercial publishing. If 60,000 mothers can tap each other's thoughts free of charge, there is a real risk that they will not shell out for the gurus."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...308932,00.html
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Originally Posted by polihaupt
True! And Mumsnet is being talked about everywhere here in the UK - so they are gaining popularity


Interesting point here too:

"I wonder how much of Ms Ford's sense-of-humour failure has to do with the potential threat that free community advice sites such as Mumsnet offer to commercial publishing. If 60,000 mothers can tap each other's thoughts free of charge, there is a real risk that they will not shell out for the gurus."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...308932,00.html
only 60,000 cuts into book sales? I shudder to think what the Commune has done over the years?
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If she couldn't take someone saying something "mean" about her or disagreeing with her, she needs to get out of the media business.

Jenn
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Originally Posted by Momtwice
Well something good came out of this...the website has banned discussing this writer At All!!! So no one can recommend her either. And this will hurt her book sales.


Yay!
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Originally Posted by Ruthla
For further clarity: it sounds like simply saying "I think letting a 5mo CIO for 3 hours is inhumane" wasn't the issue here, but it turned into personal attacks on the author. None of that would fly on MDC- the thread would have been removed.

It's one thing to say that her advice is wrong/bad. It's another to say that *she* is bad.

Leaving a 5 m/o to cry for 3 hours...omg, makes me feel sick just thinking about it...
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