Archive for January, 2009
The ever expanding crime of Web Libel
It is unnerving to go online, Google yourself, and find even one negative comment on the Internet. It is so unnerving because if you can find it–so can everyone else. This drastically increases the odds that prospective employers, co-workers, dates, and new friends will go searching for information on you and come away with a [...]
Lack of Internet Police
It is easy to understand how so many people’s reputations are damaged on the Internet. The Internet, for better or worse, is basically free of regulations and policing. This anarchic environment is given to being exploited by misanthropes and trouble-makers. The Internet is just a tool for people to use—even if some of those people [...]
Online Libel – An unforeseen danger
The Internet can be a tad anarchic at times, especially as it regards libel or slander. This is because although there are laws regulating the Internet, there aren’t many. This is part of what makes the Internet such a creative, fun, scary, resourceful, useless, place. The Internet is simply a tool, you see, and one [...]

