There’s a growing thread over at WebmasterWorld today about the very much unsettled legal matters involving blog and web publishers being held legally responsible for the comments and content posted by other users.
In our burgeoning social media internet, online defamation, libel and slander are becoming an enormous problem - both because of the very […]

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Law.com - Judge: Bloggers Entitled to Immunity Under Communications Act
Bloggers cannot be hit with libel suits on the basis of anonymous postings on their Web sites because federal law grants them immunity by explicitly stating that they cannot be treated as the “publisher” of such comments, a federal judge has ruled.
In his 22-page opinion in […]

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Why do people fall for obvious FUD and manipulation so easily? What is it that causes us to suspend rational and intellectual honesty in favor of the emotional “charge” we get out of propaganda?
The quote below summarizes things quite well:
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it […]

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