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Huge defamation case coming from Canada's Supreme Court today. Guy got sued for posting links to defamatory articles in his blog -- (link)

Posted by Evil Beaker (aka anniebecca) Oct 19 '11, 06:00

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/10/18/supreme-court-defamation-hyperlink-decision.html (www.cbc.ca)

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based on the subject line, i want to say WTF? -- nm - Andie Oct 19, 06:01 1
- the suer's argument is that by posting the links even if he didn't post or quote from the articles he is endorsing the information. -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 19, 06:07

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