[PapaBear3625]

This is big:

Sunstein calls for a "notice and take down" law that would require bloggers and service providers to "take down falsehoods upon notice," even those made by commenters - but without apparent penalty.

Something like a DMCA notice to take down "copyright infringing" items, with the originator of the notice not needing to give proof, but only make the assertion.

How many "notice and take down" letters from lawyers would FreeRepublic's Internet Service Provider need to get before they decided that it wasn't worth the risk to host FR?

[Fireone]

“Sunstein calls for a “notice and take down” law that would require bloggers and service providers to “take down falsehoods upon notice,” even those made by commenters - but without apparent penalty. “

This will not apply to altered documents such as FORGED
Birth Certificates, COLB’s, college records, letters from hospitals where duplicate births of the same person were
published.

[Montfort]

We were required to read articles by Cass Sunstein when I was at University of Virginia Law School.

And UVA is one of the more conservative law schools in the top ten or twenty.

I guess if they ever strayed too far from liberal orthodoxy, they would lose their reputation in the eyes of left-leaning organizations such as the ABA.