Not just chill but kill free speech if they win.
Quote:Experts think the lawsuit may be dismissed as a suit designed to silence comment on matters of public concern]
Hopefully the experts are right, because a win by T-P in this case would open the doors to every other corporation to completely silence any speech on the Internet that was in the least bit unfavorable to them--no matter how legitimate the complaints being voiced were.
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Quote:Experts think the lawsuit may be dismissed as a suit designed to silence comment on matters of public concern]
Hopefully the experts are right, because a win by T-P in this case would open the doors to every other corporation to completely silence any speech on the Internet that was in the least bit unfavorable to them--no matter how legitimate the complaints being voiced were.
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Site owners will be forced to become censors to avoid liability >
This is an earlier article on this case from 9/8. Google's banning of Traffic-Power is apparently what caused posters to make the comments that resulted in this lawsuit being filed against the 2 sites where the comments were posted.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284...tw=rss.CUL
Quote:Experts think the lawsuit may be dismissed as a suit designed to silence comment on matters of public concern]
The Google banning confirms what the experts thought.