Deck 20: Other First Amendment Issues: Libel, Hate Speech,cyberstalking and Copyright

Question 1

Any expression that damages your reputation within the community, causes others todisassociate themselves from you, or attacks your character or professional ability is referred to as______.

A) precedent
B) stare decisis
C) libel
D) en banc

Answer 1

libel

Question 2

A distributor is legally responsible for libelous remarks made by a third party.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The "Good Samaritan" clause is contained within the ______.

A) Telecom Act
B) Child Online Protection Act
C) 1934 Communications Act
D) Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Answer 3

Telecom Act

Question 4

The court ruled that CompuServe was a publisher not a distributor.

Question 5

The court found the information content provider partially responsible for a third party libel and, thus, not protected by the language of the 1996 Telecom Act in ______.

A) Cubby v. CompuServe
B) Carafano v. Metrosplash.com
C) Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy
D) Zeran v. AOL

Question 6

The first federal conviction for making bias-motivated hate threats via e-mail occurred in______.

A) U.S. v. Machado
B) U.S. v. Quon
C) Carafano v. Metrosplash.com
D) Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy

Question 7

The posting of bias-motivated hate death threats by Ryan resulted in a decision awarding $1.1 million to Bonnie Jouhari under the language of the ______.

A) 2003 Hate Crimes Prevention Act
B) 18 USC 245
C) Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act
D) Fair Housing Act

Question 8

The antiabortion hate web site featuring "wanted posters" of abortion doctors was ______.

A) ALPHA HQ
B) Metrosplash.com
C) Nuremberg Files
D) Napster

Question 9

Federal cyberstalking law requires a specific, direct threat or prosecution cannot occur.

Question 10

Thus far courts have held that linking and deep linking violate copyright law.