Symbol use rules

[argsilverson]

I made a new topic , because I could not made a reply in the relevant topic.

OK I understand the rules, but as I am not familiar with the German Law, I still have a question:

Does this rule applies when we post links that might contain unwanted symbols
i.e. do we have to exclude "bad photos"  or write a warning!

[Hammers]

The easiest way to keep yourself and the rest of us out of trouble is not to post and not to link to images with nazi symbols at all. Warnings, alerts etc. don't count. While it happens that one of us now and then forgets oneself it is really not a hard thing to refrain from doing. Its one of the very few set rules of this site.

[white knight]

I occasionally forget the rule myself, especially when posting to images of Weird War comics.

I understand the reasons behind the prohibition, even though sometimes it's application becomes a bit silly.

[Westfalia Chris]

Especially since the "disclaimer notice" on website is no longer considered sufficient to prevent legal action against the website owner (or rather, it never was but this was only cleared up recently), links to such images should also be avoided, as Hammershield said, since the owner of LAF CAN be held responsible for links posted here.

[argsilverson]

OK I understand.

Let's be more carefulm we do not want the owner of the forum to be prosecuted.

LAF is extremely nice and we do not want to create any problems and loose it.

[panzerfaust200]

well seeing as i seem to have caused this fuss let me start by apologising!

while i'm aware of the law in Germany i wasn't aware of the depth, so again for my ignorance i apologise.

its odd, i don't tend to think of websites or forums as having a "nationality" - but i guess that as LAF has a german registered web address i s'pose its required to obay national laws.

sorry again for any inconvienience! *blush*

rob. 

[Hammers]

well seeing as i seem to have caused this fuss let me start by apologising!

while i'm aware of the law in Germany i wasn't aware of the depth, so again for my ignorance i apologise.

its odd, i don't tend to think of websites or forums as having a "nationality" - but i guess that as LAF has a german registered web address i s'pose its required to obay national laws.

sorry again for any inconvienience! *blush*

rob. 

I don't think you need to take it that way. I'm getting used to it having to be reinforced every second month or so since it is not self evident in other countries (like Sweden, for example). It needs to be taught and learnt, just like who's allowed to say 'Black' in the US.

[Westfalia Chris]

well seeing as i seem to have caused this fuss let me start by apologising!

while i'm aware of the law in Germany i wasn't aware of the depth, so again for my ignorance i apologise.

its odd, i don't tend to think of websites or forums as having a "nationality" - but i guess that as LAF has a german registered web address i s'pose its required to obay national laws.

sorry again for any inconvienience! *blush*

rob. 

As written in the PM, don´t take it personally. It´s a delicate matter, and we just have to run a tight ship on it. And on the complications, well, it´s the law, so what did you expect? I mean, German laws are worded in a more confusing manner than GW rulebooks, and that´s to say something! And the "disclaimer void" ruling was only clarified recently.

[postal]

hammershield I would of compare it to the confedarate flag,In the U.S. we have not outlawed like the swaskitika in germany but there is a lot of fuss over and has been fought over in courts and even one case of that I know of because it was a high school close to mine the qaurtz hill rebels their mascot was yosimitey sam in a rebel uniform and at football games after touchdown they would run around with the confederate flag,people got offended and first the flag then the mascot.These arnt the best things from are past but should be remenbered.Unfourtally theres people that continue to use them as bad.As far as the "N" word in my opinion no one should use it,I could go on about this but that is another subject.

[Westfalia Chris]

Alright, I think we´ve cleared up the matter. For future things, please refer to the sticky topic or drop me a line via PM. Apart from that, this topic is now closed.