[LINK] Internet providers press for protection from libel

[David Goldstein]

>From the Independent in the UK.

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David

Internet providers press for protection from libel 

By Clayton Hirst 

28 January 2001 

A group of more than 100 internet companies is to ask the Government
to pass laws to prevent organisations being sued for defamatory
material online. 

The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) – whose members
include BT, Freeserve, Thus, AOL and Easynet – is expected to vote in
favour of lobbying at a meeting on Wednesday. 

The initiative is being driven by Thus, the Scottish telecoms company
that owns Demon Internet, with 177,000 UK subscribers. 

Last March Demon settled a libel case and paid damages to an academic
who claimed he had been defamed by an anonymous posting on Demon's
bulletin board. 

See
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Update/2001-01/internet280101.shtml
for the full article.

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