Internet defamation, also known as online defamation or cyber defamation, occurs when one party makes or is accused of making defamatory comments about another party online. (priorilegal.com)
In plain English: The Yelp law doesn't forbid website operators from removing defamatory comments from their sites. (kellywarnerlaw.com)
It won an important decision before Justice Eady of the English High Court in which the court held that Google was not liable as a publisher of defamatory comments when comments made in an internet forum about Metropolitan International Schools, a British company that operates Internet - based training courses, surfaced in the top rankings of a Google search for the company. (slaw.ca)