A victory for free speech!
Published Tue, Nov 21 2006 1:38 AM
Technorati Tags: Computers and Internet, Blogging
The California Supreme Court has ruled on an appeal in an important case for blogger's free speech. According to the BBC News:
Bloggers and US internet providers cannot be liable for posting defamatory comments written by third parties, the California Supreme Court has ruled.
It followed the case of San Diego woman sued after posting allegedly libellous comments online about two doctors.
Some of the internet's biggest names including Google, eBay and Amazon have supported a woman in a US legal battle that may save them from libel cases.
The judges said the ruling would protect freedom of expression.
This should be good news for bloggers who post content or comments written by other people. The people that write the original libelous comments are responsible for what they say. The blogger that allows the comment to be posted isn't.
That's not a licence to commit libel online though. But it is a victory for online freedom of expression.
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