You know, if your mother taught you that it's not right to post nastiness about someone on the Internet, she was right.
A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being a "crook," a "con artist" and a "fraud."Legal analysts say the Sept. 19 award by a jury in Broward County, Fla. — first reported Friday by the Daily Business Review — represents the largest such judgment over postings on an Internet blog or message board. Lyrissa Lidsky, a University of Florida law professor who specializes in free-speech issues, calls the award "astonishing."
I can think of a "blogger" right now that probably hurriedly erasing past posts.
2 comments:
It doesn't matter if the defamatory blogs are erased. Once a hard copy is downloaded, it's there for legal use. It's sad & petty when someone has to create a defamatory blog because his or her heart was broken. If you're the kind of person who could create a blog to put an ex down, then it's plain to any reader why you got dumped in the first place. You've made your petty, whiny, axe-grinding side apparent to everyone
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Good article!! There are idiots who don't know the difference between free speech and defamation.
If you have a personal conflict, have some guts and say it to a person's face, don't be a p***y and
use your cyber-bully tactics for revenge. Revenge is for inferior people and always backfires.
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