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Original Technorati articles tagged “defamation”

• in Social Media
  Court Can't Order Review to be Changed
  The Supreme Court has ordered a negative review on Yelp to remain in place.
  by cmimanagers / on Jan 3, 2013
• in Technology
  Can Google Sue Rupert Murdoch Over SOPA?
  Big Beef sued Oprah Winfrey and Big Google could sue Rupert Murdoch.
  by stephengfm / on Jan 15, 2012
• in Celebrity
  Hulkster Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Ex-wife
  Hulk says his wife lied about choking his wife and having a homosexual relationship.
  by stephengfm / on Dec 9, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “defamation”

 

• Unpaid work, in three parts

  
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  1) NYU sophomore  Christina Isnardi  - not someone Ive ever had as a student, or heard of until today, unsurprising considering NYU has like ten billion students - has organized against  unpaid internships, specifically the illegal ones listed on the schools own career database ( via ). And, I mean, true enough - ...
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• David Camerons head of strategy sues Australian minister for libel

  
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  Lynton Crosby takes Australias defence procurment minister, Mike Kelly, to court over tweet The prime ministers head of strategy, Lynton Crosby, is "heading down the path of a famous defamation case" and into further controversy over a libel case he is pursuing against an Australian defence minister concerning a ...
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• A school-anxiety daydream

  
  What Would Phoebe Do — Authority: 140
  The logistics of graduating - which Im not even planning to do this spring, but one must plan ahead   - are by far the most complicated aspect of graduate school thus far, including applying to graduate school. Some glitch, some typo, something with the margins, some problem I would never have anticipated is going to ...
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• 5 Facts: Press Freedom

  
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  World Press Freedom Day was observed last Friday, May 3, under the theme ‘Safe to Speak: Securing Freedom of Expression in all Media.’ This Fact Friday, we share some more related information: May 3, 2013 marked the 20th anniversary of World … Read more ›
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• UK Libel Law Gets Much Needed Update – But Also Threatens Online Anonymity

  
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  5/8/2013 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Free Expression Intermediary Liability and Section 230 ...
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• New UK libel law good for bloggers

  
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  The latest reforms to UK libel law will encourage greater freedom of expression, believes Robert Sharpe, Head of Campaigns & Communications at English PEN. In a useful and informative article, he explains the new UK Defamation Act 2013 and discusses how it may develop in practice. Read more on this entry. Related ...
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• Weddadys Free Arabs, American Islamic Congress and the pro-Israel funders who helped them rise

  
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  A group that rose with US government and Israel lobby funding during the early stages of the Iraq war incubated the controversial new website “Free Arabs.”
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• ADL Slams Church of Scotland for “Stunningly Offensive” Paper on Jewish Claim to Israel

  
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  The logo of the Church of Scotland. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Thursday denounced as “stunningly offensive” a paper published by the Church of Scotland which negates the core beliefs of Judaism regarding God’s promises about the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. The church paper, entitled ...
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• ‘Table Mountain Declaration’: Abolishing ‘insult laws’ and criminal fefamation in Africa

  
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  The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, meeting at the 60th World Newspaper Congress and 14th World Editors Forum Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, from 3 to 6 June 2007, Note that in country after country, the African press is crippled by a panoply of repressive measures, from the jailing and ...
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• “A looming democratic deficit”?

  
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  The folk at the brilliant OurKingdom blog commissioned a piece from me on the next steps for Libel Reform.  The crucial issue: During the Parliamentary debates, the Government flatly rejected proposals to extend the Derbyshire principle to private companies spending taxpayers money. British citizens are therefore ...
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• The Value Of A Free Press

  
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  Last Friday, May 3, marked the 20th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day. May 3 was proclaimed World Press Freedom Day the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. According to UNESCO, the day is observed to “celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom; … Read more ›
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• Defamation Act 2013

  
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  E RADAR Team on E RADAR The UK Defamation Act 2013 amends the law of defamation. The proposals impact upon media publishers. Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill it received Royal Assent on 25 April. The Act is primarily concerned with the English civil law of libel and slander ...
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• OFMDFM spokeswoman: “The Defamation Bill was never considered by the Executive”

  
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  In the Belfast Telegraph, Liam Clarke has a glimpse behind the curtain at ministerial manoeuvring around the failure to consent to the UK Defamation Bill .  From the Belfast Telegraph article UK-wide legislation like the Defamation Bill can be extended to here by a motion of ‘Legislative Consent’ passed ...
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• Historical WHITE Slavery Revealed

  
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  From Resisting Defamation If an  ANTI-white American teacher or professor mentions some destructive effects of European  exploration and settlement in the Western Hemisphere without mentioning the lessons that indigenous White Europeans received in destruction at the hands of Mongols , Turks , and ...
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• Met Police pay libel damages to riots ‘Good Samaritan’ – BBC News

  
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  “The Metropolitan Police is to pay substantial damages to a man who was wrongly pictured in ‘wanted’ posters following the London riots in 2011.” Full story BBC News, 3rd May 2013 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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• The Bulgarian Principle

  
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  On Tuesday night, I sat at the Livingston table for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s 100th anniversary . As I blogged a few weeks ago , the ADL was started to fight antisemitism by my great grand uncle Sigmund Livingston. The keynote speaker was his excellency Rosen Plevneliev, president, Republic of Bulgaria. ...
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• About That First Amendment Thing

  
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  CBS Pittsburgh: PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Students at Carnegie Mellon say it’s freedom of expression, but the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh calls it inappropriate and disrespectful. At an annual art school parade, a female student dressed up as the pope, and was naked from the waist down while she passed out ...
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• 2013 SFWA ELECTION COVERAGE: Theodore Beale Nails the BIG ONE! . . . Move Over Scalzi, Hines & Making Light

  
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  [Theodore Beales blog posting today. Once again, Beale has demonstrated that he is a real force to be reckoned with and why Scalzi, Strauss, Hines, Nielsen-Hayden & others fear him. Well done "Theo" . . .  Well done. Interesting that the statistics have increased during the 2013 SFWA Election - The Write Agenda] ...
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• The 3 Dumbest Ways to Get in Legal Trouble Online

  
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  Though the law may never fully catch up to the pace of innovation on the Internet , it certainly is trying and there are a lot of ways you can find yourself in legal trouble on the Web. Many of the ways are obscure, complex and difficult to avoid. Is using that passage from a site a copyright infringement? Is that ...
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• Feminist assholes: You’re doing it right

  
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  The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. —Gloria Steinem Please allow me to be vague. I was trolled. It started with an email: You are insensitive and two-faced. The intensity increased with each new message: Integrity is a quality I would seek if I were you. Until the vitriol stopped … ...
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