{"id":48,"date":"2008-03-21T09:16:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/03\/21\/ibrattleborocom-victory-good-fo"},"modified":"2008-03-21T09:16:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:16:26","slug":"ibrattleborocom-victory-good-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/03\/21\/ibrattleborocom-victory-good-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"ibrattleboro.com victory good for everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/files\/2008\/03\/snapshot-2008-03-21-10-02-29.jpg\" alt=\"ibrattleboro logo\" \/><br \/>\nO frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!<\/p>\n<p>Living up to his title, Vermont judge the Honorable David Howard has ruled to release ibrattleboro.com from a libel lawsuit that aimed to hold the site responsible for comments posted by a reader. This is an important affirmation of the special protections put into the law to protect online publishers from being held responsible for audience-contributed material. It&#8217;s a wonderful outcome. <\/p>\n<p>My erudite colleagues at the Citizen Media Law Project have explained the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citmedialaw.org\/blog\/2008\/ibrattleboro-victorious-court-dismisses-libel-lawsuit-under-section-230-communications-dec\">legal issues<\/a> better than I can and ibrattleboro.com co-founder Chris Grotke has a very readable post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibrattleboro.com\/article.php\/20080320124350363\">explaining the case to readers.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So, if you have a site where people comment or submit material, be grateful, do not be <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/research\/chillingeffects\">intimidated<\/a> and make sure you know your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citmedialaw.org\/legal-guide\">rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Living up to his title, Vermont judge the Honorable David Howard has ruled to release ibrattleboro.com from a libel lawsuit that aimed to hold the site responsible for comments posted by a reader. This is an important affirmation of the special protections put into the law to protect online publishers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}