In relation to part (c) of the section 1(1) defence, Eady J said that Google did not know and had no reason to believe that it had done anything to cause or contribute to the publication of the comments (despite the fact that one might consider allegations of theft, drug dealing and hypocrisy to be quite clearly defamatory). 
 
Traditionally, Google might have been in trouble for the amount of time it took them to respond to Mr Tamiz’ complaint (3-4 weeks). However, in this case, Eady J said that the period between notifying the original blogger and the offending material being removed was so short that Google’s liability would be trivial. 
 
Eady J therefore thought the innocent dissemination defence would have been available to Google had it been needed.