Simply Defamation means speeches in which social form is threatened and is divided in two parts. Libel which is when defamatory materials are published via printed or written format and the other one Slander is when spoken words are the tools to defamation. In this part I try to speak how cyber space can be a place for defamation.

One of the issues is publication of problematic speech via internet. When cyber space becomes a place for individual activities, the popularity of cyber space increased when the number of internet users is rising. So in this situation, one of facilities for any user is connection to the internet and be an online publisher. There are some other ways that become problematic. One is the picture that post on a photo sharing websites to show different face. The other way is destroying the reputation of others for example, showing the wrong face of a person because of revenge or any other reason. Or other way would be getting the private information of one individual and posted them online.

I think that increasing the number of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and other networks increases the probability of defamation. Although social networks have many positive effects on people’s social living, it provides a virtual world that everybody can infiltrate the others’ privacy and threat the reputation of victims in cyber space. The focal sad point is that individuals can defame others and conceal behind a virtual name or ID.

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