CA Court Protects Free Speech Rights for Internet

by nukegingrich | November 20, 2006 at 09:07 pm

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The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that bloggers and participants in Internet bulletin board groups cannot be sued for posting defamatory statements made by others.

In deciding a case closely watched by free speech groups, the court said a federal law gives immunity from libel suits not only to Internet service providers, like AOL, but also to bloggers and other users of their services.

Now that the courts have taken a stand regarding tort cases, it will be
interesting to see what direction the PC/multi-culti crowd takes. I
would speculate that they will try to use “hate-crime” legislation to
criminalize offenders in their endless pursuit to silence opposing
thought and speech. And, if European law is a harbinger, then we can expect this type of action very soon.

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