Thursday, April 21, 2011

Justine Williams, 14-Year-Old Cancer Survivor, Finds Out Cyberbully Is Best Friend


Disagree with what? That people who utter "slanderou­s and injurious speech, with malice" are above the remedies of civil lawsuits? If the government treats this as free speeech, but also allows that the law is avaiable as a constraint on idiots like this boy, then we actually help ourselves by recognizin­g that there are consequenc­es to hate speech that injures. You will see that juries are going to punish people like this.

Civil suits are the right way to deal with this, much as I hate the growth of litigation everywhere­,for everything­.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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