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    Gabriele Taylor was my undergraduate philosophy tutor at St Anne’s College, Oxford from 1989-1992. I remember her as an incisive…

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European Court of Human Rights upholds website owner liability for defamatory user-submitted comments

An important decision, striking a small blow for making cyberspace less of a cesspool than it presently is.  See esp. page 44 of the opinion.  As is so often the case, American law is an outlier here, providing the maximum protection for defamation and hate speech, including especially in cyberspace.

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