Losing Battle?
It may be tempting to sue when someone bashes your company online, but free speech has the upper hand.
By Jane Easter Bahls •
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Lastmonth, I wrote about the need to protect your computer networkfrom attacks by hackers. This month, let's consider another wayyour company might come under electronic attack.
Anyone who's had a bad experience with your business canvent anger these days in ways that go way beyond grousing about itin the barbershop or raising a stink at the annualshareholder's meeting. Unhappy investors fill Internet chatrooms with invective about companies they love to hate. Disgruntledformer employees fire off e-mails to former co-workers berating thecompany. Frustrated customers put up Web sites that bash a givencompany.
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