I just commented on the following story (to read the whole story - and my comment, follow the link below the quote.

Censorship as protection?
In Norway, we’ve had a massive debate over the last couple of days about who’s responsible for the content published in the comments following stories in online media. I won’t bother you with links, since they’re mostly in Norwegian, but the short version is as follows: On the web site of Norwegian daily Agderposten’s discussion forum, rumors of highly sexual nature about soccer player and former Liverpool pro Stig Inge Bjornebye were circulating. The rumors were false, but were accessible for a long time. Today, Agderposten was found guilty by the PFU, the Norwegian press’ watchdog organization.

The case has raised some interesting questions: Are newspapers responsible for content published on their web sites? Should newspapers censor this content? Should everything published on the internet be censored? If so, who should do this? And is it possible?

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