Chat Room Libel Cost $485K

A judge has awarded $485,000 in damages and costs to a Toronto company and its management targeted by libelous remarks in an internet chat room. Ontario Superior Court acknowledged all the money may never be collected since writers used pseudonyms and untraceable email accounts: “Their cowardice is reprehensible.”

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