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[ga] [Fwd: STLR Publication: "A Regulatory Proposal for Digital Defamation"]
- To: Leslie Liang <lliang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: [ga] [Fwd: STLR Publication: "A Regulatory Proposal for Digital Defamation"]
- From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:36:06 -0800
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Leslie and all,
<p> Forwarding this along. Thank you for the input and information.
<p> As you already know, this is a concept under law that is now
well
<br>of thorughly discussed or considered, but needs to be. Unfortunately
<br>such a legal concept is frightening to some, especially those that
know
<br>or suspect that they are guilty of defamation, of which I know of many.
<br>Yet the handwriting is on the wall now, and sooner rather than later
<br>the chickens will be comming home to roost.
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<p><br>The Stanford Technology Law Review is pleased to announce the publication
of the following student note:
<p>Caitlin Hall, Note, <i>A Regulatory Proposal for Digital Defamation:
Conditioning § 230 Safe Harbor on the Provision of a Site "Rating"</i>,
2008 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 4 N1 (2008).
<blockquote>Whatever lip service we may pay to those spaces "immemorially
. . . held in trust for the use of the public," the Internet is operatively
the most important public forum ever created. Its vast interconnectivity
far more nearly approximates the prototypical "marketplace of ideas" than
do warring politicos duking it out on the op-ed pages or, for that matter,
in opposing briefs. However, the very features that make the internet fertile
ground for cultural and political discourse?anonymity and pseudonymity;
intellectual symbiosis and parasitism; fractal sprawl, audience dispersal
and many-to-many architecture?render it a treacherous landscape for its
custodians. In recognition of that fact, Congress in 1996 passed the
Communications
Decency Act, which nearly eliminated the liability that website administrators
face for third-party generated content.
<p>However, Congress may not have adequately anticipated how badly people
behave when they know no one is watching?a lapse in judgment that has grown
increasingly conspicuous as internet users have become more sophisticated
and successful in their efforts to avoid identification. While statistics
on the phenomenon are unavailable, it is apparent that defamation in particular
has begun to occur online with alarming frequency. However, there is reason
to believe that we should be less concerned with digital libel than its
print and broadcast analogs. This article will explore the critical differences
between libel in traditional and digital media frameworks, and propose
a scheme for the regulation of online defamation that can accommodate the
internet's unique structure.</blockquote>
The full article may be accessed and downloaded in .pdf form at the following
URL: <a
href="http://stlr.stanford.edu/pdf/hall-digital-defamation.pdf";>http://stlr.stanford.edu/pdf/hall-digital-defamation.pdf</a>
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