-50themselves the next day – not in response to a specific complaint by the appellants’ solicitors – and taken down immediately. But, in practice, as the courts below found, such control cannot be exercised across the board because of the huge volume of traffic generated by the forum. The respondents, unlike the editors of newspapers, cannot possibly know the content of the statements they publish; nor can they be equated with the operators of a television station such as the defendants in Thompson v Australian Capital Television PTY Limited [1996] 186 CLR 574 where the station owners chose to re-broadcast a live interview and had the means of control over the contents before they were broadcast: As Fok JA remarked at §104, it would have been relatively straight forward in Thompson to delay the transmission by a few minutes to determine whether any part of the material should be expurgated. On the facts of a case like the present, manual screening of the content was impossible and no technology has yet been invented to filter out defamatory statements by mechanical means. As Fok JA observed at §105, filtering by keywords was not possible since defamatory meaning could be communicated by a combination of words, which may individually be innocuous. 125. No reported case in the common law world has been found to fit the circumstances of this case. Godfrey v Demon Internet Ltd [2001] QB 201 comes fairly close. There the service provided by the defendant, called a “bulletin board”, was described by Morland J (at p.204G) as a “one-to-many publication from author to readers round the world”, available to those with access to a service called Usenet. A defamatory message was posted on the bulletin board; the plaintiff alerted the defendant to the existence of the offending posting; the posting was not removed; subscribers were able to read the offending message until it was automatically erased 10 days after the posting. The plaintiff claimed damages for libel in respect of the period when the message remained on the bulletin board after the defendant became aware of