Courtney Love Libel Case May Prove There's a Limit to Free Speech on Twitter

Since the advent of social media, people have been discovering that free speech does indeed have its limits. Not only can what you say on Twitter get you fired, it can also get you sued for libel.

Case in point: the suit against Courtney Love for alleging via Twitter that her former counsel had been bought off. While this is certainly not the first Twitter defamation case, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Love’s attorneys argued the case should be dismissed “because of the hyperbole and exaggeration associated with the Internet.”