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To: dantecristo who wrote (4808)	6/30/2003 12:26:41 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) of 12465

Mary, the Cremers decision is quite interesting. On the one hand, the rationale behind the Telecommunications Act of 1996 -- “to encourage the unfettered and unregulated development of free speech on the Internet..." -- makes perfect sense. On the other hand, I can certainly sympathize with someone who is forced to move out of town because an influential site published an unsubstantiated rumor about them. The key, for me at least, to resolving this dichotomy is (once again) for the courts to simply classify alleged defamatory Internet postings as slander not libel. This way, readers would be encouraged to treat such printed material as gossip rather than news, thus defusing potentially explosive material the moment it is viewed. - Jeff

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