cleanfeed and wikipedia

[Ian Batten]

On 10 Dec 08, at 1743, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> I think it would be interesting if an ISP offered a fraud  
>> prevention service
>> which relied on a level of filtering to see what would happen if a
>> subsequent victim of online fraud attempted to sue their ISP.
>
> That's one of the events which I do think would put the ISP at risk.

The Terms and Conditions for the BT Webwise offering attempt to avoid  
this risk.

> We will endeavour to keep our list of suspected fraudulent or  
> illegal sites as up to date as possible and to warn you about any  
> sites on this list if you attempt to view them [lack of full stop  
> sic] However, we do not accept any liability for any loss you incur  
> in the event that the BT Webwise service fails to warn you about a  
> fraudulent or illegal site.

I'm not a lawyer, so I can't comment on how effectively that protects  
BT.  It certainly opens up another piece of entertainment in the  
potential defamation action if a site is blocked as fraudulent (and  
the error message says so) but it turns out that it is in fact  
legitimate (for some value of legitimate).  ``WE will...keep OUR  
list'' means that they're pretty much taking responsibility for it.

ian