Trans Candidate Defamed on Twitter

    • 2573 posts
    August 26, 2009 3:01 PM BST
    http://www.advocate.com/n[...]209.asp

    "Robinson is the former owner of a construction firm in Michigan, where she finished third in Lansing's 2003 mayoral race. She founded the National Association for the Advancement of Transgendered People. "

    Thanks to social networking sites there is a whole new avenue for being Outed or defamed. Can criminal and civil law deal with these "drive-by" defamation? Will government agencies take action? Does it matter? Do we care?