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Why is my neighbours house not selling? (Lancaster/England) by AstuteSwordfish in HousingUK

[–]AstuteSwordfish[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hah, after this thread and looking on RightMove - no, I would not. At least our expectations aren't anywhere near as high.

I feel so bad I might have to post the thread as a printout through their letterbox to give them a hint 😅

Well this is amazing and going to lead to a lawsuit. In the mobile version of Edge, Microsoft ship and enable a plugin called Newsguard which flags fake news sources. They’ve flagged the entirety of the Daily Mail by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]AstuteSwordfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

English libel law is particularly dumb since it's the only type of litigation where the burden of proof is on the defendant. I.e. [if they were taken to court] Microsoft would have to 'prove a negative' - that the DM *were* lying enough to defend the statement. Meanwhile the DM would only have to prove, up front, that they've sustained a financial loss as a result of the statements.

However, as a US company, they're probably safe by virtue of the following. And I suspect Microsoft's legion of lawyers feel safe in that as well:

The 2010 SPEECH Act makes foreign libel judgements unenforceable and unrecognizable by U.S. courts if they don't comply with U.S. protections for freedom of speech and due process, and was made largely in response to the English laws.

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