Wayne Crookes is a B.C. business person who is claiming he was defamed on the internet. He

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Wayne Crookes is a B.C. business person who is claiming he was defamed on the internet. He has named several specific individuals who were the actual defamers but also is suing Yahoo, MySpace, Wikipedia, and other intermediaries, claiming that they are responsible for the defamation because they failed to monitor their sites properly to ensure that such defamatory articles were promptly removed. For example, he claimed Yahoo refused to take down an offending site (chat room) and therefore was equally responsible, and MySpace failed to take down a personal page containing defamatory material and allowed a link to another site containing defamatory material. How far should the liability for defamation go? Should these intermediaries also be responsible? What if they fail to take the offending item down when asked? Are there any situations where an intermediary should also be responsible for defamation?

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