MetaFilter posts tagged with defamation

Reliving a nightmare

orrnyereg — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:18:45 -0800

After serving a prison term for molesting an eighth-grader in Ohio, David Copeland-Jackson moved to the District to live with his mother. He e-mailed a buddy and together, federal authorities said, they came up with a plan that would fool a respected judge into issuing a $3 million defamation order against Copeland-Jackson's victim. Indictment against David Copeland-Jackson. Affidavit in support of arrest warrant for David Copeland-Jackson.

No more Anonymous AskMe questions?

desjardins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:22:17 -0800

Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Ban Anonymous Internet Posting. This bill is pretty much a nonstarter, but should online defamation be criminalized? [pdf]

Ya lard brained nonce Nazi

gsb — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:11:27 -0800

Warning to chatroom users after libel award for man labelled a Nazi. "Mr Keith-Smith told the Guardian that he took action after a debate about the Iraq war in 2003 on a Yahoo! message board with about 100 members turned ugly. "She was very pro-Bush. Initially, she called me lard brain and I wasn't particularly concerned about that. Then she called me a Nazi," he said."

NJ Assemblyman Proposes Outlawing Anonymous Internet Flaming

Saucy Intruder — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:56:24 -0800

New Jersey Assemblyman Peter Biondi didn't like that he and his friends are getting flamed on the news portal NJ.com by people named, inter alia, "frenchtoast2." So he introduced a bill, and that bill would require "operators of interactive computer services" to make members' real names available upon demand, and allow content providers to be sued for contributory defamation. And he saw that this was good. And that was the first day.

Well, it can't be worse than a very bad gypsy attack.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:56:59 -0800

Borat likes you. Do you like Borat? Not everyone does. Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry is threatening to sue to prevent the country from being presented in a "derogatory way" by the caricature, a brainchild of UK comedian Sacha Boren Cohen, aka Ali G. [more inside, dziękuję]

Defamation on the Internet

grestall — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:05:01 -0800

The High Court of Australia has decided that you can defame someone in Australia by posting an article on a website hosted outside Australia, if that article is read by people inside Australia. I suppose this means that anyone posting on the internet is subject to Australian defamation law. (Unless you decide to block requests from Australian browsers.)

gluechunk — Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:16:09 -0800

The Anti-Defamation League has categorized the circle-A anarchy sign as "General Racist Symbol" (although in the Background info, they state: "The majority of people who identify with this movement consider themselves non-racist or anti-racist"). Kinda wacky.