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Online reviewers in Oregon on notice: Supreme Court declines to offer ordinary people higher media protection from libel suits

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Online reviewers in Oregon on notice: Supreme Court declines to offer ordinary people higher media protection from libel suits

The state’s highest court declined to extend certain free speech protections available to the media to ordinary people, batting down arguments that anyone with an internet connection and an opinion now acts as a journalist.