European Arrest Warrant and publishing/distributing on the internet

Ian Brown I.Brown at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:23:37 +0100


> So here's my query: Are there any British precedents relating to
> whether posting things to websites or usenet groups, constitutes
> conduct occurring in all the countries they are subsequently
> accessible from?

Zimbabwe's govt is claiming that Web pages accessible in that country are
"published" there, and hence subject to their unpleasant censorship laws:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,739026,00.html

Hopefully (!) the UK would not go down this route...