On Sun, 1 May 2005 08:09:13 -0500, Andrew Gray wrote
(in article ):


On 2005-05-01, Tanker wrote:
You may want to read some of those laws you talk about.....The last time I
read an internet law it indicated that no man or woman or business can sue
for libel for information published on the internet. The execption to this
rule is the Child Pornography laws which cover all entities and media
types.

Interestingly, this may not be the case.

Let's leave aside the concept that the internet as a whole is legally
construed as a forum on which libel cannot take place - ie, that it is
somehow not considered a form of publishing. I have grave doubts about
whether this is the case, although it is true that what's been published
here is unlikely to cause a court to give a damn.

(Snipped rest of interesting discussion).

The most important rules lay-persons need to remember about American
defamation law are these: you can't defame the dead and truth is an
absolute defense to libel.

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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