News Aggregators

[Tronjan]

Hey yo fools. Goodmorning!
There was this case where Wa-ikulu took gugu and the belongs-to-the-sewer Daily post to court for libel.
Then I heard bla bla bla ...oh sijui news aggregator....sijui oh. Then case sijui ilienda aje.
Tell me how do "News Aggregators" work?

 

[LeoK]

Hii kijiji watu wametumia nini leo ?

 

[Jefe]

Upuuusuuuuu,,,,,,

 

[kasaman]

Hii kijiji watu wametumia nini leo ?

It's raining hapa githurai !

 

[aristide]

Hey yo fools. Goodmorning!
There was this case where Wa-ikulu took gugu and the belongs-to-the-sewer Daily post to court for libel.
Then I heard bla bla bla ...oh sijui news aggregator....sijui oh. Then case sijui ilienda aje.
Tell me how do "News Aggregators" work?

The Kenyan subsidiary was sued to hand over identifying information on the blogger. Information that is owned and controlled by the mother company. That's what killed the case if I recall correctly.

A news aggregator in the Kenyan context is those copy-paste sites that never have original news. Perhaps a legal expert can comment on the liability of the operators.

 

[Murang'a]

It's raining hapa githurai !

Kimbia hapo jubilee bar kuna kuna za Mia mbili

 

[Tronjan]

identifying information on the blogger

Rioba somebody?

 

[Tronjan]

Information that is owned and controlled by the mother company.

I thought libel and defamation cases fundamentally place the burden on the publisher i.e. even sharing libellious info on somebody is enough to convict u even if u are not the originator of the info.

 

[aristide]

I thought libel and defamation cases fundamentally place the burden on the publisher i.e. even sharing libellious info on somebody is enough to convict u even if u are not the originator of the info.

The publisher was unknown at the time and the court was compelling the hosting platform to disclose his identity.

 

[aristide]

Rioba somebody?

If I remember correctly the blogger is some Kisii fellow in downtown Nairobi. Some enterprising Kenyan leaked his identity a while back.