Joho the Blog » defamation http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Linking to defamation is not defamation http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/10/28/linking-to-defamation-is-not-defamation/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/10/28/linking-to-defamation-is-not-defamation/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:22:22 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/10/28/linking-to-defamation-is-not-defamation/ A Canadian court has decided that linking to a defamatory page is not itself an act of defamation. It does leave admit exceptions, such as repeating the content of the defamatory passage or linking the phrase “The truth about Wayne Crookes is found here.”

The chilling effect if the court had decided otherwise would have been positively arctic.

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