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*   Public Citizen to Defend SavageStupidity.com Against Savage Lawsuit
SavageStupidity.com announced today that Public Citizen, a nationally prominent non-profit public interest law firm, has agreed to defend them from a lawsuit filed by Talk Radio Network, Inc., which syndicates "The Savage Nation", a nationally broadcast radio talk show hosted by the infamous Michael Savage (née Weiner), SavageStupidity.com (June 3, 2003)

*   Sex and the Internet
OPG Executive Director Will Doherty presented a program entitled "Sex and the Internet" to the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in San Jose, CA, Online Policy Group (April 12, 2003)
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*   Ontario Court Orders Large Award For Ner Defamation
An Ontario court has awarded $400,000 in damages in possibly the largest such award in Canada for Internet defamation. The court noted that the global scope of the Internet ensured that the publication was communicated to worldwide audience, which contributed to the size of the award, The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (July 25, 2002)

*   Minnesota Supreme Court Issues Net Jurisdiction Decision
The Minnesota Supreme Court has refused to enforce a libel judgment involving an Internet posting, arguing that the Alabama court that issued the ruling should not have asserted jurisdiction over the matter, Minnesota Supreme Court (July 11, 2002)

*   Appeals Court Says Doctors Threatened in Wild Wild West
A US federal appeals court has ruled that antiabortion activists who created Wild West-style posters and a website called the Nuremberg Files condemning abortion doctors can be held liable because their works amounted to illegal threats, not free speech, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals via FindLaw (Adobe pdf file) (May 17, 2002)

*   Posting of Abortion Doctor Data on Sites Constitutes Threat
The operators of a website containing personal information about doctors and others involved in providing abortion services can be held liable for damages under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and anti-racketeering statutes, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Adobe pdf file) (May 16, 2002)

*   Sexual Racism SUX!
This web page is aimed at confronting racist behaviour and speech in gay men, particularly those of us who use online personal services like gaydar, Sexual Racism Sux (May 1, 2002)

*   Court: OK to Encourage Abortion Threat
A federal appeals court threw out a record $109 million verdict against anti-abortion rights activists today, ruling that a website and wanted posters branding abortion doctors "baby butchers" and criminals is protected by the First Amendment, U.S Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals via FindLaw.com (March 28, 2001)

*   The Nuremberg Files
The website at the center of the controversy over the wild-west style wanted posters branding abortion doctors as "baby butchers", Pathway Communications (March 28, 2001)

*   Online Oddities and Atrocities Museum
Welcome to the equivalent of the wax museum of the online world... permit its horrors to titillate you, then confront those who spread hate and defamation and organize to prevent Internet blocking software from taking over access in your local public schools and libraries, Online Policy Group (January 1, 2001)
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*   Out on the Internet
Remarks about filtering, online access, online privacy, and digital defamation prepared by Will Doherty for a Stanford University panel discussion at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Awareness Week, GLAAD (April 3, 2000)
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