What is the meaning of this sentence?

English translation: we do not endorse these websites

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English term or phrase:	Links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein.
Selected answer:	we do not endorse these websites
Entered by:	Angela Dickson (X)

13:13 May 17, 2005

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: What is the meaning of this sentence?

Links to other Internet sites should not be
construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein.

adda

we do not endorse these websites

Explanation:
It means that the people who wrote the site you are looking at do not want to take responsibility for the content of the sites they link to.

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Angela Dickson (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:31

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5 +7

we do not endorse these websites

Angela Dickson (X)

5 +1

Not our liability...

David Moore (X)

4 +1

"...should not be understood as our supporting the views you find in these sites"

Carmen Schultz

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peer agreement (net): +7

what is the meaning of this sentence?

we do not endorse these websites

Explanation:
It means that the people who wrote the site you are looking at do not want to take responsibility for the content of the sites they link to.

Angela Dickson (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:31
Native speaker of: English

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17 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

what is the meaning of this sentence? "...should not be understood as our supporting the views you find in these sites"

Explanation:
To paraphrase it using third person plural to help visualize this: "Links to other internet sites should not be understood as our supporting the views you find in these sites"

Carmen Schultz
Local time: 10:31
Native speaker of:

Native in Spanish

Spanish,

Native in English

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1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

what is the meaning of this sentence? Not our liability...

Explanation:
It all stems from a ruling in a Hamburg court that "site operators are responsible for the sites to which they provide links", considered by many as rather stupid, but then the law is, as we say in Britain, "an ass". The response has been overwhelmingly of the type you quote, whereby the site operators disclaim all responsibility for the sites to which links are provided. This is usually on the basis that links are only given to sites which have been assessed and found acceptable; however, the operators cannot reasonable be expected to monitor every site for alterations, and these might be of an unpleasant nature...

David Moore (X)
Local time: 17:31
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

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