WOULD YOU CARE FOR SOME TEA?
Wednesday, January 04
Cert This
Got an email today (yesterday now, actually), from MyCERT, the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team.
Got an email today (yesterday now, actually), from MyCERT, the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team.
Usually such notifications are to report spam or phishing attempts coming from a server in the mununiverse, meaning some poor soul got their CPanel or Wordpress account hacked.
This time it was instead a cyber harassment complaint.
Relating to a small JPEG image.
Of a cartoon.
On an item, on a blog, posted in 2012.
Discussing censorship.
MyCERT copied our hosting provider, so I sent them - our hosting provider, that is - a query asking if the image violated their terms of service, which seems unlikely.
If I get hit with a valid DMCA request I will comply fortwithly, because otherwise our hosting provider will comply by yanking our connection (which they need to do to keep their legal immunity under the DMCA).
But I'm more likely to edit user comments for spelling than to remove an image because it "harassed" someone.
Update: Our hosting provider said, and I quote:
Looks like free speech to me. Closing ticket.
Incero. Love these guys.
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