The French Constitutional Court has ruled that website administrators, such as blog or forum editors, should not automatically be held liable for comments posted to the sites, an EDRI-gram reports. In cases where the editor had no previous knowledge of the content of the comments, and because commenters often cannot be traced in order to assign responsibility, it is unacceptable to penalise the site editor for the messages. The court also concluded that a mass media law identifying editors as responsible for content does not apply in "this new field," the report states. 
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