[Lurking Libertarian]

Maybe it’s time to post remarks that you know will get you attacked and libeled on sites like the Huffington Post, Moveon.org, The Daily Kos and every other one you can think of. Then ask for $5,000 from each site for each post. You’ll either make a lot of money or the liberal sites would shut down. Or a constitutional judge would throw the cases out which would be a victory for free speech.

In the United Staes, a website operator cannot be sued for statements made by commenters on the site, under section 302 of the Communications Decency Act.

[conniew]

In the United Staes, a website operator cannot be sued for statements made by commenters on the site, under section 302 of the Communications Decency Act.

At the very least, we need this in Canada. But I really think that defamation law has no place being applied to the internet at all. There are other laws to protect people from legitimate cyber-harassment.

[freedom462]

Do you know what the current laws in the US are regarding posting information and commenting online? When it comes to posting comments, at least in the US, the only types of online comments that have gotten someone into legal trouble are those that involved threatening someone’
s immediate safety and/or repeated stalking of someone online. Of course, a few of those cases have already grown to ridiculous proportions, see the Justin Carter case in Texas last year, for instance. Do you know what the official rules are?

This is also for anyone else on this thread who is particularly knowledgeable.

[zeugma]

In the United Staes, a website operator cannot be sued for statements made by commenters on the site, under section 302 of the Communications Decency Act.

Well, since here in the good ol' USA you can apparently sue someone in Aargentina for acts committed on Argentinian soil against Argentinian citizens some decades ago, I'd not be surprised at all to see Canada allow suits against operators of American websites for allegedly libeling canadian citizens. It's not near as much of a stretch, since the internet extends to Canada.