Striking a legal balance in Anonymous online postings

[Krank]

Striking a legal balance in anonymous online postings

Ontario court tackles free speech versus defamation

By Michael Geist, Citizen Special August 2, 2011

The Internet has given rise to thousands of online chat forums, where participants can sound off on the issues of the day often shielded by the cloak of anonymity. Anonymous speech can be empowering - whistleblowers depend upon it to safeguard their identity and political participants in some countries face severe repercussions if they speak out publicly - but it also carries the danger of posts that cross the line into defamation without appropriate accountability.

Striking the balance between protecting anonymous free speech and applying defamation laws sits at the heart of a new Ontario Superior Court decision released last week.

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/St...#ixzz1TtQRBShn

[fl57caveman]

Striking a legal balance in anonymous online postings

Ontario court tackles free speech versus defamation

By Michael Geist, Citizen Special August 2, 2011

The Internet has given rise to thousands of online chat forums, where participants can sound off on the issues of the day often shielded by the cloak of anonymity. Anonymous speech can be empowering - whistleblowers depend upon it to safeguard their identity and political participants in some countries face severe repercussions if they speak out publicly - but it also carries the danger of posts that cross the line into defamation without appropriate accountability.

Striking the balance between protecting anonymous free speech and applying defamation laws sits at the heart of a new Ontario Superior Court decision released last week.

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/St...#ixzz1TtQRBShn

interesting article...implications are wide, but the posters were not id'ed, if i read it right.

[Krank]

Where is vic toews? we want him back.

Why? You need a 2 foot deep lake built somewhere Yard??

[Gold Standard]

Bad news for crackpots and rumpots.

[Utopia Texas]

There are thousands of self appointed Internet Experts on forums all the time who have no facts to back up their claims and say things about folks that they would never have the guts to say face to face. You can fulfill every fantasy you have and be whomever you want to be and no one knows the better.
I am personally the most physically attractive male on the planet to all females and worth hundreds of millions of dollars and quit counting my IQ once it was above 160.