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Is Facebook feedback defamation - or honest criticism of poor customer service?
Brands threatening to sue for defamation and deleting critical comments from Facebook do not improve their brand image or demonstrate transparency. So why threaten defamation over a negative...
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Twitter could be sued for its users' unlawful tweets
If a Twitter user posts a defamatory tweet, they could get sued. But could Twitter itself be sued as a 'secondary publisher' for simply being the platform to an 'illegal' tweet?
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The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC"...
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Company sues for defamation over tweet
So Amanda Bonnen tweeted about her apartment, rented from Horizon Realty Group. She said: Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment is bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay. That made the...
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Legalists: Google Case Precedent for Challenging Privacy
Yesterday, Google released the name of an anonymous blogger engaged in a defamation case in Israel. The case is significant on a number of accounts not the least of which is because it may help...
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Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?
I can scarcely begin to catalog the legal considerations related to the fact that someone is masquerading as Chris Pirillo on Pownce.
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Is Facebook feedback defamation - or honest criticism of poor customer service?
Brands threatening to sue for defamation and deleting critical comments from Facebook do not improve their brand image or demonstrate transparency. So why threaten defamation over a negative...
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Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to honor Facebook
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced it will be honoring Facebook during its 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott Marquis Times Square later this week.
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Twitter could be sued for its users' unlawful tweets
If a Twitter user posts a defamatory tweet, they could get sued. But could Twitter itself be sued as a 'secondary publisher' for simply being the platform to an 'illegal' tweet?
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Apple threatens to sue Proview for defamation
Apple's lawyers have issued a letter to the chairman of Proview threatening to sue the company over defamation and damages caused by the company's recent actions.
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Egyptian sentenced to three years for defaming Islam on Facebook
Ayman Hassan Mansour has been sentenced to three years in prison for Facebook posts found to be insulting to the Islamic religion.
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Unvarnished: A forum to review others or defamation lawsuits waiting to happen?
Unvarnished is a new site that allows people to "review" each other - anonymously. Could it open the floodgates to defamation lawsuits?
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Defamation or free speech? U.S. court orders Google to hand over identity of blogger
Should your Internet anonymity be pulled back if you call someone a "psychotic, lying, whoring...skank" online? That's what Liskula Cohen, a 37-year-old fashion model, was called by an anonymous...
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The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC"...
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Company sues for defamation over tweet
So Amanda Bonnen tweeted about her apartment, rented from Horizon Realty Group. She said: Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment is bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay. That made the...
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Court clears Google search in defamation case
A court in the United Kingdom has ruled Google isn't on the hook for defamatory information in its search results.
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Legalists: Google Case Precedent for Challenging Privacy
Yesterday, Google released the name of an anonymous blogger engaged in a defamation case in Israel. The case is significant on a number of accounts not the least of which is because it may help...
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Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?
I can scarcely begin to catalog the legal considerations related to the fact that someone is masquerading as Chris Pirillo on Pownce.
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Defamation unlikely to be expanded in CA
ISPs are protected against defamation suits by federal law. A case in CA would undercut that protection. But the California Supreme Court signaled they will overturn a lower court decision.
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School files defamation claim against Wikipedia
The vagaries of free speech on the Internet are being challenged once again in a case against Wikipedia for anonymously publishing critical comments about a private Catholic high school.
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