By Anna Winter on July 25, 2011
WA’s Attorney General wants to give parents legal rights over their children’s Facebook pages. Miranda Devine, in her typically careful way with words, describes social media as “barbarism, unleashing the worst elements of human nature, with no restraints” and quotes [...]
Posted in Culture, Featured, Relationships, The Web | Tagged anonymity, bullying, christian porter, Culture, cyber-bullying, email, facebook, google, Marshall McLuhan, Miranda Devine, pseudonyms, social media, Sociology, trolls, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2009
An American Court has required Google to disclose the identity of a blogger who allegedly defamed a New York model, Liskula Cohen, so that she could take an action for libel: Judge Madden rejected the claims by the blogger’s lawyer [...]
Posted in Blogging, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged andrew bolt, anonymity, attack speech, blogger, Blogging, blogs, commenters, comments, defamation, google, hate speech, identity, Jason Wilson, Law, libel, Liskula Cohen, Media, vilification, web 2.0 |
Anonymity, blog commenting and defamation
By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2009
An American Court has required Google to disclose the identity of a blogger who allegedly defamed a New York model, Liskula Cohen, so that she could take an action for libel: Judge Madden rejected the claims by the blogger’s lawyer [...]
Posted in Blogging, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged andrew bolt, anonymity, attack speech, blogger, Blogging, blogs, commenters, comments, defamation, google, hate speech, identity, Jason Wilson, Law, libel, Liskula Cohen, Media, vilification, web 2.0 | 33 Responses