Q: Testing Irish libel online?
Monday’s Muse.
Who, or what, is going to test the libel laws as applied to online publishing in Ireland?
Digital Rights Ireland (a body devoted to defending Civil, Human and Legal rights in a digital age) have an excellent overview of the current online libel sitaution in Ireland.
Guido Fawkes appears to have started something by using the pledgebank.com
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