FreeDominion.ca was a Canadian political discussion forum that began in 2001 and was shut down earlier this year as a result of an Ontario Superior Court decision on a defamation case that was brought against the website. Today we talk to co-webmaster Connie Fournier about the website’s Kafkaesque legal ordeal and how Canadian law allows individuals to sue webmasters over anonymous comments…even if they are deleted from the web.
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FreeDominion.ca
Conservative website shuttered after libel ruling
Denis Rancourt Dissects the Tort of Defamation
OCLA position paper on Bill 83
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