The World Wild Web is an open door to depravity and defamation

It is inevitable that there will be more defamation litigation resulting from nasty online reviews. And the law just isn't set up to cope.

As Abraham Lincoln once said, "Don't believe everything you read on the internet just because there's a picture with a quote next to it".

We do all kind of understand that, but the internet's speed and ubiquity constantly challenge the balance between the instinct to suspect and the desire to know.

In short: we believe way too much of what we see.

A quick search for online reviews of my law firm brought up this pearler, on a website called "judgeyourlawyer.com.au":

"It is my strong opinion that Marque Lawyers hire fake writers to post fake reviews on their Facebook, a number of our clients have been very disappointed with the professionalism and conduct of Marque Lawyers however they respond to all negative reviews with legal threats hence you will only see the fake positive reviews they post about themselves, in my