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Libel

The Internet is not as Anonymous as you might think.

Several issues have been going on for awhile, the idea of trolling has been around since BBS’s back in the day ::makes grunting sounds as he gets up::  and it only gets worse as more people come online. The freedom of anonymity is empowering. But the problem lies in the fact that you aren’t anonymous. [...]

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Little Sister versus Big Brother, I’d like to hear more.

As a fan of social networks, but a fan that has a love/hate relationship with social networks, I have a lot of questions for people who might find this blog and want to talk about it. The main question is… why are you so willing to give up information to small, medium, and large corporations; [...]

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Project Indect could be the most Orwellian sounding project yet.

So, in an effort to out do the MIT team, it seems the EU has put together Project Indect. The more I read about this, the more intriguing it becomes. Tying it to the DNA database in the UK, full time monitoring of the entire society for abnormal behavior… we are on the cusp of [...]

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MIT students create detection software called Gaydar.

Frankly, there is absolutely no reason for this piece of technology to exist. No point to it. A persons sexual orientation is not something to calculate on a large scale unless you are going to use it for dubious acts.

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Renter Sued for Libel due to Twitter Post

In what is going to be a great example of The Streisand Effect, the Horizon Group Management LLC is suing a former renter of a property managed by the organization. With the somewhat dubious proclamation of “We’re a ’sue first, ask questions later’ kind of an organization,” they come across as an organization out to [...]

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AIG v AIGFP v Press v Politics : Two sides to the story.

This is amazing. Slowly discovering the real story. I had initially suggested that AIG was at odds with everyone not employed by AIG, and that holds true both in generous bonuses and the track it took to land us all here. Well, AIG FP at least. Then I watched the grilling of Liddy which showed [...]

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A discussion about Internet Anonymity.

There is a lot of talk recently about the transition of the real world into the anonymous world of the internet, and the reverse. Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, and Nigel Powell, all make comment about some disturbing trends in real-world-meets-blogger.
You see, people have been taking the personal comments, evaluations, and recommendations of bloggers as personal [...]

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Online Libel, and a former project: onlibel.com

This is interesting, but only in the sense that the power of an online forum for libelous comments to find viewership is based on the ability of said forum to reach the audience it so unrichly deserves. In the case of onlibel.com, the forum was to provide a way for people to argue, and going [...]

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