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There was an item on Breakfast this morning about a new blogsite that lets people post about alleged misdeeds by CYFs workers (and leave personal details such as the person's email address or car registration number). Unasked was whether casual bloggers - or anyone posting anything to a website, or in an email - is bound by the same libel laws as, say, me or the editor of the NZ Herald: The answer is yes: professional or amateur, we're all held to the same standard.

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