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Congress Urged To Protect Bloggers From Efforts To Squelch Speech

Fifty-nine law professors are asking lawmakers to pass a federal law aimed at protecting online bloggers from lawsuits aimed at squelching free speech. The academics say those lawsuits create a "serious dilemma" for bloggers: "They can stand by their speech and risk financially ruinous legal defense costs, or they can try to avoid litigation at any cost by shutting up, even when the demands are clearly retaliatory or improper attempts by a plaintiff to silence critics and intimidate other Internet users from speaking up."  

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