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Litigation

Apr. 4, 2012

Defamation on the web is the product of morals developed at home

Defamation on the Internet starts at home. By Sarah Condor


By Sarah Condor


Defamation has always been in competition with the right of speech, and the cases in this area overflow in volume, scope and depth. One would tend to think that where the communication is the problem, communication is also the key to the solution.


Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes online service providers from liability for third-party content. This section was originally passed in 1996 as an amendment to the Act in...

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