"What you write could get you sued" says today's Wall Street Journal. Highlighted is a blogger in Bellevue, Washington - near my old stompin' grounds of 2nd Ranger Battalion - who is being sued for slander and libel for what she wrote in her blog. Background - blogger claims an adult entertainment company inadvertently compromised personal information on customers due to a hacker attack - company denies any customer info was compromised. Blogger claims she should be protected as she has rights afforded a reporter - company disagrees. According to the WSJ there were 106 such suits against bloggers last year.
You readers of my blog can guess where I come out on this, right? No, seriously, freedom of speech does not extend to slander and libel in any public forum...but a free society needs a free press.
There we go again with that balancing act of freedoms...
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