Can Google Be Liable for Defamatory Comments Made on A Blog Which it Hosted?

The answer is maybe.  Neil Foster (Newcastle) sends word of an interesting English Court of Appeals case:  Tamiz v. Google Inc.   The court found that, in some circumstances, Google could be liable for defamatory comments made on a blog hosted by Google:  “Thus, if Google Inc allows defamatory material to remain on a Blogger blog after it has been notified of the presence of that material, it might be inferred to have associated itself with, or to have made itself responsible for, the continued presence of that material on the blog and thereby to have become a publisher of the material.”

– SBS