Re: Internet Defamation as Profit Center, by Ann Bartow
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:37 pm
Ann Bartow, Internet Defamation as Profit Center: The Monetization of Online Harassment wrote:Neither civil nor criminal laws offer effective tools to prevent, address, or punish online speech, which is viewed by many as being vested with very broad First Amendment protections. [33] Current Internet norms may foster civility in some specific contexts, [34] but, as a general matter, gender based harassment is broadly permitted online.
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33. See, e.g., Eugene Volokh, Cheap Speech and What It Will Do, 104 YALE L.J. 1805 (1995); Jacqui Chang, Appeals Court: First Amendment Protects Forum Trolls Too, ARS TECHNICA, Feb. 7, 2008, http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... ls-too.ars.