Friday, October 19, 2012

A more polite internet?

In the UK a young man was jailed for 12 weeks for making grossly offensive Facebook posts. In Germany a court rules that a company had the right to fire another young man, after he put "slave drivers" in the section who he was working for on Facebook. In short: The law is catching up with the internet, and insults and libel on the internet will be treated like they are treated elsewhere.

Why did these cases all involve Facebook? Not because Facebook is a less polite place than other internet f

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