So I was checking CNN.com again and I couldn't resist finding out what Courtney Love had done to get herself into trouble again. Turns out this time she is being sued for offensive messages she had posted on Twitter about a fashion designer.
This seems like a simple enough case, except that any case involving Twitter or any modern technology is scrutinized heavily by everyone in law. Apparently Laws regarding technology follow about five years after the technology has made it into the mainstream and since Twitter hasn't been around for very long, people are waiting to hear the outcome of this libel case involving Twitter.
The biggest question is whether or not you can say what you want without consequences when using things like Twitter. Apparently you can still find yourself being sued as if you were printing this information on the front page of the newspaper. How do you preserve freedom of speech in a social medium? Right now it's looking like you don't.
This isn't the first case involving Twitter, just the highest profile case going on right now. A motion to dismiss the case altogether was overruled simply because it is important for cases dealing with previously unaddressed areas of American law to come to fruition so that a precedent can be set. Maybe Courtney Love can do something helpful for a change and win this case so more of these lawsuits don't pop up in the future.
I understand that Twitter is sometimes more than the simple micro blog it was meant to be, but it isn't the New York Times.
Maybe I should get rid of all the negative stuff I said about Rupert Murdoch before he takes me to court.
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