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One Who Creates (Board Administrator)
Username: Admin
Post Number: 37
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 - 2:31 pm: |     |
Code of Ethics and Netiquette
The Jean Auel Discussion Enclave (JADE) is targeted at an adult audience, children under the age of 13 can not register and thus will not need to give out any information. This is in compliance with COPPA.
Parents have the responsibility for their children and are thus in charge of controlling the contents and material their children have access to, we do not take up such responsibility on this board.
However, we do follow the general rules of netiquette and want to maintain a certain standard of language and style on this board. While we will not interfer with the free discussion of subjects that some groups may perceive as risky, we neither welcome nor tolerate pornographic, defamatory, degrading or otherwise obscene language.
We will basically go with the language used in Auel's books, since most people who come here, young or old, will have read them. Thus the language used on this board may be as graphic, but not more graphic than that in the books. This will be referred to as the 'Auel Rule'.
In addition to that, we are bound to the laws on obscenity and libel through our web host that is based in the US and states:
You must not submit, publish, or display on the network any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, infringing, or threatening content. In addition, you may not submit, publish, or display any content that violates any US Federal, State, or Local Law.
Supreme Court Obscenity Definition
1) A thing must be prurient in nature
2) A thing must be completely devoid of scientific, political, educational, or social value
3) A thing must violate the local community standards
If it meets all three of these things, it is obscenity.
Defamation is the result of an attack on the reputation of a person or organization; it includes attacks on a person's honesty, integrity, or virtue which result in public contempt, ridicule, or financial injury.
Further reading:
http://www.adultweblaw.com/laws/obscene.htm
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/flwilks.htm
http://censorware.net/essays/obscene_jt.html
http://www.canlii.org/ca/sta/c-46/sec298.html
http://www.lectlaw.com/def/l032.htm
http://www.in.on.ca/tutorial/netiquette.html |
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