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VicToMeyeZR:

--- Quote from: jens on April 12, 2010, 02:17:06 pm ---Hello Kai, please remove the german content from your personal text.
This forum is english only (due to legal issues).

Thanks !

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Just out of curiosity, what "legal issue" could possibly arise from not using English?
Never heard of a legal issue on a public forum, maybe not wanting to deal with it, or not understanding, but nothing illegal about it.

Jenna:

--- Quote from: VicToMeyeZR on April 15, 2010, 08:28:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: jens on April 12, 2010, 02:17:06 pm ---Hello Kai, please remove the german content from your personal text.
This forum is english only (due to legal issues).

Thanks !

--- End quote ---

Just out of curiosity, what "legal issue" could possibly arise from not using English?
Never heard of a legal issue on a public forum, maybe not wanting to deal with it, or not understanding, but nothing illegal about it.

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--- Quote from: thomas ---Certainly. The domain owner (Yiannis) and the server are both located in the European Union, the latter in Germany. EU law has it that you are responsible and liable for all content that is on your site. Germany has already made it very explicit and confirmed in several cases that this also applies to content that you did not produce (such as forum posts), and even content that you have no knowledge of. The case against Heise is one example of how perverted the system is.
German government, as you know, is particularly avid at producing the maximum possible bullshit whenever a fart from Brussels or Washington is heard.
[...]
However, as long as the majority of our people is happy with being bullied and punished without reason, this is what it's going to be like.

Obviously, Yiannis wouldn't want to deal with that kind of crap, it costs time and money and is good for nothing. So the forum rules disallow everything the moderators cannot understand. As everybody speaks English, this was soon changed to "English only", which is also nicer for most forum users. Posts we can't read are deleted as we find them.

Unluckily, that also answers your question about the "non-english" forum  :(
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