Compiled list: Legal cases related to online harassment & free speech
In preparing for my lecture on Free Speech and Social media, I’ve been looking for examples where these issues have been explored legally. I was hoping to find someone who had kept a list of them, but since I didn’t find such a thing I started one.
If you know of others to add, or other similar lists, please leave a comment:
- Lawsuit against Yelp reviews, Hadeed carpet
- USA vs. Jeffries, re: Youtube video
- Teen in jail over Facebook threat
- Threats and abuse for online women
- Twitter harassment case in Toronto court (more)
- Montreal twitter harasser arrested
- Pennsyvania vs. Cox, Facebook posting lawsuit
- San Francisco court protects free speech (EFF)
- Court finds offensive IM messages
- Cyberstalking law unconstitutional
- Bullied student does not have to hand over media
- No restraining order over uncle posting family photos
- No permission needed to tag Facebook photos
- Site operator defends anonymous commenters
- List of U.S. related state laws
- Cyberbullying fact sheet (children)
- Harassed online: what to do?
Thanks to Venkat, Babs Guthrie, Heather Bussing, Jen Zug, Skud, Cameron Campell, Ellie, Christine Bower, Sarah Jeong for helping find these.
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Also the My Space suicide case from a few years back (criminal matter against the mom that posed as a student and harassed a girl, who then killed herself.) Here’s the Wikipedia link for the case with links to the decision. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Drew
Then there are the Courtney Love and Johnny Gill twitter defamation suits that are ongoing now. http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-defamation-cases-are-heating-up_b12799
it happened once in Indonesia
Prita Mulyasari: Young Mother Imprisoned for Criticizing Hospital
http://indonesialawonline.com/Case%20Prita.aspx, http://indonesia.ahrchk.net/docs/CaveatV01-I.pdf
A new one here in Seattle:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/man-arrested-threatening-seattle-mayor-councilmemb/ncsYn/
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