> Effectively, this forces a site to moderate That was not my reading of it. In fact, were you to moderate it then you would have no defence under the EU E-Co

> Effectively, this forces a site to moderate That was not my reading of it. In fact, were you to moderate it then you would have no defence under the EU E-Commerce Act. I do run unmoderated forums in the UK, and have in the past been on the receiving end of legal action regarding some user generated content. My reading of this and other laws that work in this area (user generated content and liability thereof) is that it is best to not moderate at all, to have no editorial process that intervenes, but to have clear policy and mechanisms to allow notifications to be received. And ultimately, to record and act on those notifications. In terms of moderation, one might argue that it is a form of reactive moderation. But I would not argue that, as there is no expression of an editorial policy in handling notifications based on legal merit and only intervening in site content when notified.