Comment by Mindwipe
4 months ago
No, you still need to do things like write an impact assessment etc and you're still on the hook for "illegal" comments where you aren't a judge and have to arbitrarily decide what might be when you have no legal expertise whatsoever.
If I'm moderating all comments before they're published on the website, what's the problem? I mean, I've got a simple tech blog. I'm not going to publish random drive-by comments. Only comments that relate to my blog are ever going to be published. Am I making sense?
Does anyone in your blog comments ever discuss circumvention of DRM?
That's a criminal offence in the UK (two year prison sentence in some circumstances). Do you have a good feeling for what might count as incitement in those circumstances?
> Does anyone in your blog comments ever discuss circumvention of DRM?
No, they don't. My blog is not all that popular. It has got some programming puzzles, Linux HOW-TOs and stuff. Most of my audience is just my friends.
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It's weird that you completely ignored his answer and then asked the same question again. Refer to the post you responded to for an answer.
Ah! Sorry. I did miss that they said "you still need to do things like write an impact assessment".
So what's the best course of action? Remove comments feature entirely? Maybe that's what I should do. I wonder what everyone else's doing.