IP: Free speech or cyber-slander?

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:33:19 -0500
>To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
>
>The following story appeared in The Globe Online:
>Date: 2/29/2000
>By Ross Kerber, Globe Staff
>Headline: Free speech or cyber-slander?
>Story Intro:
>
>Cyberspace has become less anonymous as companies use libel suits to find 
>and unmask their online critics, but now some cyber-chatters are fighting 
>back.  The chatters claim a First Amendment right to post messages on 
>electronic bulletin boards using pseudonyms. They have scored some success 
>in challenging attempts to pry loose their identities from Internet 
>service providers.
>
>The legal battle may alter the balance of power on the Web as chatters try 
>to extend a tradition, dating back to the Federalist Papers of 1787, which 
>respects unsigned opinions. Yet never before has anonymity applied to an 
>arena as broad as the Internet, where commercial interests are swamping 
>the network's libertarian roots.
>
>If you're interested in the rest of this story point your
>web browser to:
>
>http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/060/business/Free_speech_or_cyber_sl 
>ander_+.shtml
>
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>your browser.)
>
>Regards,  Matt-
>
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