Cyber libel suits on rise: "Unlike a newspaper or a television broadcast, something on the Internet is available to anyone in the world.
While a definitive court definition of what constitutes 'broadcasting' has yet to be made, anyone posting anything anywhere on the Internet can be considered to be a broadcaster, unlike a decade ago when it was restricted to TV and radio stations holding a government licence.
Lawyers also say people posting on the Internet may think they are anonymous when, in fact, they are anything but. That perceived cloak of anonymity leads them to post opinions that they would never put in a signed letter to the editor, for example. "
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