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Curbing Internet Defamation

By Jonathan Bick
February 26, 2009

The “e” world at times seems lawless still, but the truth is that the long arm of the law stretches into the ether to right wrongs and police against wrongdoings before they're committed.

Take speech, for instance ' an activity that a bit more than a decade ago seemed wide open and unruled on the Internet. The truth is that an identifiable Internet speaker who sends an unlawful e-mail or who posts an unlawful Internet message is subject to traditional litigation tactics ' a fact and strategy touch point that all e-commerce counsel are well advised to keep in mind, and of which to remind their clients on a regular basis.

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