hate speech
The good, the Maverick and the ugly: dispatches from the Straight Talk Express
By Kim on October 13, 2008
With less than a month to go til America votes, barring any more mad game changing moves or even an October Surprise from Osama Bin Laden or the tattered remains of the Bush administration, all the smart money is on [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign Elections, Nationalism, Race, USA | Tagged barack obama, base, Culture Wars, economic crisis, financial crisis, GOP, hate speech, hate talk express, John McCain, Lindsay Beyerstein, macaca moment, maverick, Peter Martin, Republican National Committee, RNC, sarah palin, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, youtube | 70 Responses
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