The Texas Supreme Court recently set precedent by ruling that a court can order an author to delete a defamatory Internet posting, but cannot stop him from reposting the same statements elsewhere.
Rather than a permanent injunction to restrict future posts—which would be an unconstitutional prior restraint on free speech—the court’s award of damages to the victim is the right way to deter any future defamation, wrote Justice Debra Lehrmann in Kinney v. Barnes.
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