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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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 1, 2009
Folks might recall some discussion about the law of defamation when the spurious photos alleged wrongly to be of Pauline Hanson were published during the Queensland election campaign. As promised, Legal Eagle and Skepticlawyer have put together a guide to [...]
Posted in Ethics, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged Blogging, blogosphere, defamation, Ethics, Law, malice, Pauline Hanson, Speech |
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