Online Chat at the Washington Post
posted by Daniel Solove
I’ve been invited by the Washington Post to host an online chat on the Washington Post website about privacy, free speech, and anonymity on the Internet. The chat will take place from 11 AM to noon EST today.
The discussion will cover the Megan Meier case, which I blogged about several times (see here and here for example), as well as broader issues related to my book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet. You can participate in the chat, or read along, here.
January 10, 2008 at 12:03 am
Posted in: Privacy (Gossip & Shaming)
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Jon Garfunkel - January 17, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Dan,
Interesting chat. I just read Lauren Collins’s reporting on Megan Meier’s suicide in the New Yorker. This line pulled my attention:
“Tina [Meier] says that she called the police to try to find out whether Josh was legitimate, to no avail.”
And here’s one of your responses from the chat:
“If you find something bad on a website about yourself or your child, contact the author of that site and ask for it to be taken down. Hopefully, they will comply.”
It’s clear as I argued in my PONAR proposal, is that the average person often has great difficulty determining the author of harmful speech online, and how to contact them. There should be an extralegal way of doing so.
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