<p>Since the page listed the teacher’s name, it had to have been more defamatory than what’s on CC.</p>
<p>"Several First Amendment organizations dedicated to protecting student rights recognize that in the Internet age, it is even more important that students understand the possible consequences of their speech. The popularity of social networking sites, including MySpace.com and Facebook.com, is increasing, with MySpace becoming the most visited site on the Internet in July 2006.</p>
<p>“One of our biggest challenges as an organization is to ensure that the huge number of students who have become Internet publishers understand both their legal rights and responsibilities,” said Student Press Law Center Executive Director Mark Goodman. </p>
<p>Goodman said the SPLC is frequently referring students to the libel and privacy page in the resource center section of the SPLC Web site, as well as to SPLC publications such as the book Law of the Student Press. On Nov. 30, the SPLC, with a grant from the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, released a new Power Point presentation on libel law that students and teachers can download for free from the SPLC Web site.</p>
<p>Blog creators are often unaware of the consequences of posting comments subject to libel lawsuits because they are ordinary people, and are not necessarily media law experts, according to a Oct. 3, 2006 USA Today article titled “Courts are asked to crack down on bloggers, Websites.”</p>
<p>Of the more than 50 libel-related lawsuits from the past two years listed on the Media Law Resource Center’s Web site, medialaw.org, four, including Draker’s, pertain to student expression. "</p>
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