In the UK there are no blanket laws and responsibility rests with sites – who require proof of death before handing over any digital keys.
Though in the end, SourceForge removed the blanket block – placing responsibility on project managers to choose their level of restriction – the fact remains that a large swath of open-source projects are still off limits to users from restricted countries.
Two or more permittees that concurrently collocate on or after January 1 , 1985 shall assume shared responsibility for remedying blanketing complaints within the blanketing area unless an offending station can be readily determined and then that station shall assume full financial responsibility.
I wouldn't want to make a blanket statement saying that's the responsibility of all comedians, or that's the responsibility of all audiences to choose to look into things like that.
How a tragedy like that is created, the abuse, and [how] blame and responsibility are always blanketed in every direction except the correct one.
Moaning, a source of entertainment in its own right, is also an important psychic comfort blanket, a way of venting resentment without taking responsibility for effecting change.
It's good that they feel they have support – but they shouldn't feel it's blanket support such that they abrogate their own responsibility.
Lurma Rackley, director of public affairs and social responsibility at Eddie Bauer, said, "To make a blanket statement that all big companies maintain sweatshop conditions is unfair".
I did not believe blanket waivers in any way relieved me of my journalistic responsibility to protect a source.
"Their main function seems to be to act as a security blanket for senior officers - a way to avoid taking responsibility for the decisions they have to make.
The idea of Facebook issuing a similar blanket ban had, however, concerned some freedom-of-speech campaigners who had suggested it was the responsibility of parents - not the company - to protect children on the internet.
