He says criminalizing libel is pointless when there are functioning civil mechanisms to judge defamation and slander allegations.

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"We don't get involved in adjudicating whether something is libel or slander, " says Jason Goldman, a manager at Google's blogging division.

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Nonsense, says Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who argues that because all of us have equal access to it, the Net relegates libel and slander suits to the slag heap of history.

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Historically, only the commission of slander or libel have been legitimate reasons for any legal system restraining speech, but even then, it is restrained or punished in a civil way after the fact.

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