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Media Organizations Join Forces to Fight Canadian Ruling

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-you-don't-have-anything-nice-to-say dept.

csaila writes "Some of the world's big media outlets (including CBC, CNN, Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Reuters, and -- as well as Amazon, AOL, Google and Yahoo) are appealing a Canadian court ruling threatening both free speech and the Net. The ruling stems from a former UN employee who successfully sued the Washington Post in Ontario for libel, arguing that because the Post's Web site carried the story. his reputation had been "damaged" in that province."

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  1. Speaking of which... by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 3, Funny

    Washington Post in Ontario for libel, arguing that because the Post's Web site carried the story. his reputation had been "damaged" in that province.

    Talk about poor journalism. Isn't that supposed to be a comma after story?

    1. Re:Speaking of which... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Congrats of being the first Slashdotter arguing over no less than two pixels of inaccurate text.

    2. Re:Speaking of which... by S.O.B. · · Score: 4, Funny

      Have you ever heard of a dependent clause?

      Is he related to Santa Claus? :D

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  2. Canada Eh? by xsbellx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just goes to prove, when it comes to court rulings, we can be just as brain-dead as our beloved American cousins!

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