The cases of campus libel on Internet have becoming one of the new and developing criminal types recently. Because of the anonymousness on cyberspace, many students and instructors often ignore the serious consequences of defamation on Internet. The focus of this article on the important issue, based on the rulings of libel in Taiwan, the campus libel cases on Internet before June 2008 was collected and analyzed through the media characteristics of Internet. The result shows that the different network media has different rates of judgment requirements in discussion. The judges have taken the specialty on Internet and the academic significance into consider. Especially to deserve to be mentioned, this research shows the decriminalization of defamation have existed in judgments of campus defamation on cyberspace. According to this research, the following suggestion can be drawn: The issue of the decriminalization of defamation should be more exact for rationality and fairness.
中文關鍵詞
刑法,民法,校園網路誹謗,誹謗除罪化,案例分析
英文關鍵詞
criminal law, civil law, campus defamation on cyberspace, decriminalization of defamation, case study