Alex Reid

Cyber Libel is a growing concern in both the field of law and for Internet Service Providers. But here’s some reaching cases like this one: Woman faces eviction over Internet innuendo.

In this article, it also tells of a man who worked for VIA Rail, wrote about turmoil inside the Crown Corporation under a pseudonym on the bulletin board of the Frank Magazine website over a three month period in 2004, on his own time. He then received an order to appear at the company’s administrative offices in Toronto to provide a “formal employee statement” about those comments. Even though his union wanted to fight the action, he chose to resign.

These cases raise important issues of freedom of speech, as well underline the imbalance of law where many of these plantiffs could afford large lawfirms, while a simple blogger could not and as a result, could not fairly fight the case.