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Comment Internet Libel Standards (Score 5, Informative) 619

It doesn't seem like he will have much success if Bloggers can't be sued for libel. Note this paragraph:
The court based its decision on a section of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, or the CDA. That section states, "... no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Three cases since then -- Zeran v. AOL, Gentry v. eBay and Schneider v. Amazon -- have granted immunity to commercial online service providers.
Point, set, match, google.

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