http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-8-20-magid

"Fertik, whose company helps people manage their online reputations, thinks there needs to be a mechanism for people who have been defamed or libeled to order the removal of offending content. His idea is to "take a page from the playbook of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which allows copyright holders to issue a takedown notice to services that are hosting material without permission of the copyright holder."

(Basically give everyone on earth a heckler's veto over anything posted anywhere on any website that they don't like).

"At the conference, Fertik made the point that, 'Viacom can send one letter to YouTube to get 50,000 videos removed, but if your daughter is on YouTube kissing a boy, you're out of luck.' "

(Is this really the kind of chickenshit 'problem' that Rep Defender gets called in to solve? And, of course, you could always just ask the boy nicely to take the video down.)

"Another panelist, Dan Dougherty of eBay, defended CDA Section 230, saying it is 'effective and useful for its intended purpose of encouraging diversity and honest discourse on the Internet.' He expressed concern about Fertik's notice-and-takedown proposal, saying that defamation is different from copyright, where there is registration and other evidence of ownership."