Can social media companies cancel history?

Yair Cohen, social media lawyer, in an interview with RT News, explains how social media censorship works and why it is so dangerous to allow social media companies to continue regulate free speech.

Internet Trolling – Winning the Battle

Internet trolling is no longer part of a sub-culture. Online bullying of adults and children is soon to reach an ‘epidemic’ level, because no one is around to enforce any rules.

After the conviction of Sean Duffy at Reading Magistrates' Court in September 2011, I was hopeful that his prosecution and conviction would deter others from harassing innocent members of the public on the internet.

Unfortunately I was wrong. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it would be difficult to argue that the conviction of Sean Duffy has made any significant impact on the numbers of internet trolling cases in the UK. What we have experienced in the past 5 months since the conviction, is an intensification of a serious social problem, involving both adults and children in the role of online bullies. A radical solution will soon be required

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Google told to disclose personal information of an anonymous blogger ina UK defamation case

Google Inc. is ordered by a UK Judge to disclose personal information of an anonymous blogger.

On Monday 23 January 2012, a High Court Judge in London ordered internet giant Google Inc. to disclose to a UK claimant, data and personal details which it holds in relation to a user who utilised Google’s Blogger to spread defamation against a UK based businessman.

Google was told to have information, which includes the blog owner’s user name, email address and IP address disclosed to Yair Cohen, lawyer acting for the claimant, who is fighting for defamatory content about him to be removed from the American based Blog. Read full article on Internet Law Expert blog.

Internet defamation legal advice

"If you have found yourself being the subject of an online reputation attack, with lies being spread about you over the internet, you will find that the most effective way of dealing with such menace is to simply ask that the website owner or the Internet Service Provider remove the libellous statements. Normally website owners and internet service providers are not willing to tolerate online abuse or risk getting involved in litigation which has probably got nothing to do with them anyway. You can normally obtain very useful information from the website owner because websites routinely require visitors and bloggers to register before posting content and sites usually can pinpoint the IP address where the defamatory posting originated.
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