Courts Begin To Frown On Online Badmouthing

Whistler's Mother writes: "Employers are winning key legal victories against former workers who criticize them online. Rulings in the waning days of 2001 could have a chilling effect on workers' use of cyberspace for years to come, civil libertarians say. The battle over Internet free speech also is heating up as more firms crack down on grousing by laid-off staff. Read the whole story here."

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Well it's about time

[Anonymous Coward]

As if corporations didn't have enough to deal with when they only had to pay these jackasses for slacking off or doing whatever bad employees unlike myself do. Now we have this Internet that lets these people slander legitimate businesses with falsehoods and accusations that have little basis in reality, and until now, no legal recourse.

It's about time the corporate world enjoys some measure of protection against those who worked from within, and now work from the outside, to bring them down.