MSNBC: The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that bloggers and participants in Internet bulletin board groups cannot be sued for posting defamatory statements made by others.

In deciding a case closely watched by free speech groups, the court said a federal law gives immunity from libel suits not only to Internet service providers, like AOL, but also to bloggers and other users of their services. [Link]

Looks like you can haul out those old letters from people saying bad things about others…you can’t be sued now, but the original author can. So blog on and repost away!

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