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Plenty of people have already gotten jammed up over ill-advised tweets. Now, the shenanigans are going to court. From CNN
"In a case that would have been impossible even five years ago, bad-girl rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel by a fashion designer for allegedly slamming the woman on Twitter.
The suit claims that after a disagreement over what Love should pay Dawn Simorangkir for the clothes she designed, Love posted allegedly derogatory and false comments about the designer -- among them that she had a "history of dealing cocaine" -- on her now-discontinued Twitter feed.
But as technology [12] evolves faster than the laws that govern free speech online, it's not just the famous who are finding trouble."
See more examples of Twitter-related legal trouble from CNN [13]
Some people treat the internet like the wild west. What should the free speech expectations be in the digital realm?
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