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Plenty of people have already gotten jammed up over ill-advised tweets. Now, the shenanigans are going to court. From CNN

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"In a case that would have been impossible even five years ago, bad-girl rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel by a fashion designer for allegedly slamming the woman on Twitter.

The suit claims that after a disagreement over what Love should pay Dawn Simorangkir for the clothes she designed, Love posted allegedly derogatory and false comments about the designer โ€” among them that she had a "history of dealing cocaine" โ€” on her now-discontinued Twitter feed.

But as technology evolves faster than the laws that govern free speech online, it's not just the famous who are finding trouble."

See more examples of Twitter-related legal trouble from CNN

Some people treat the internet like the wild west. What should the free speech expectations be in the digital realm?

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