Editing Defamation (section)

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The rise of the internet as a medium for publication and the expression of ideas, including the emergence of social media platforms transcending national boundaries, has proven challenging to reconcile with traditional notions of defamation law. Questions of jurisdiction and conflicting limitation periods in trans-border online defamation cases, liability for hyperlinks to defamatory content, filing lawsuits against anonymous parties, and the liability of internet service providers and intermediaries make online defamation a uniquely complicated area of law.<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=Mondaq|url=https://www.mondaq.com/canada/libel-defamation/1192444/internet-defamation-for-businesses-and-professionals|title=Canada: Internet Defamation For Businesses And Professionals|author=Karem Tirmandi|date=12 May 2022|access-date=30 May 2022}}</ref>

In 2011, the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] held that a person who posts hyperlinks on a website which lead to another site with defamatory content is not publishing that defamatory material for the purposes of libel and defamation law.<ref>{{cite CanLII|litigants=Crookes v. Newton|link=|year=2011|court=scc|num=47|format=|pinpoint=|parallelcite=[2011] 3 SCR 269|date=2011-10-19|courtname=auto|juris=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.libelandprivacy.com/cyber-libel-updates/|title=Cyber Libel Updates Archives|website=McConchie Law Corporation}}</ref>