Sticks and stones and words that harm: Liability vs. responsibility, section 230 and defamatory speech in cyberspace

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-158

  Lipinski, Tomas A ^a,b   Buchanan, Elizabeth A ^a   Britz, Johannes J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Defamation; Internet service providers; Internet speech; Libel; Moral responsibility

Indexed keywords

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; WEB SERVICES;

AUSTRALIA; CYBERSPACES; DEFAMATION; LIBEL; MORAL RESPONSIBILITY; ON-LINE SETTING; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; SPEECH ENVIRONMENTS;

SPEECH;

EID: 18544388728     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019915520692     Document Type: Article

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