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Free Speech And WebLogs

Posted by Hemos on from the watching-what-you-saw dept.

welloy writes "The WashingtonPost has an article regarding free speech and web logs. Its focus is on how web logs are governed by the same laws/rules of standard print journalism. The header quote: "Bloggers" surprised by legal limits on Web journals."

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  1. Whats the American court system to do by TerryAtWork · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If the libelous blog is published anonymously from a server in, say, Lebanon?

    There's only two real rules in cyberspace that apply everywhere.

    1 - Large prime factors are hard to find.

    2 - Everything is a bitstream.

    That's it - everything else is a matter of quaint local customs and luck, good or bad.

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    It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.