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7.“A Girl’s Sexy Text, and Altered Lives,” Hoffman, New York Times , Sunday, March 27, 2011(Vol.CLX, No. 555,357), p. 1 and 18.
8. Currently high-speed connections run at 256 gigabytes, but soon that number will seem quaint.
9. There are exceptions to the prohibition against rechilut. One may give testimony ina court to insure that justice is served; indeed one’s obligation to give truthful testimony— even if it involves what appears to be rechilut, overrides the prohibition against tale bearing. One may speak about another person in order to protect a person from bodily harm(e.g., revealing a person’s intention to commit murder). Similarly, one may reveal information about another to protect a person from entering into a business arrangement with a person who is untrustworthy or dishonest. This last exemption is complex and requires careful thought and a cautious approach.
10.The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution , as interpreted by the Supreme Court in the 1964 case New York Times v Sullivan requires a public figure to prove not only defamation, but also“actual malice.” This means that the person makingthe defamatory statement new it to be false and issued it without regard to the truth. Ariel Sharon , accusing Time Magazine of libel for its February 21, 983 issue that alleged that Sharon had“reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge” for the assassination of Lebanese Christian President Bashir Gemayel prior to the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Time Magazine was exonerated because although their story contained falsehoods and was defamatory, they had not acted with“acted out of malice.” The courts have ruled that the category“public figure” can include individuals, who haveinvoluntary attracted public attention, such as those accused of crimes, or those whose actions bring them media attention, even for a limited period of time.
11. Malcolm Gladwell , The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Little, Brown , 2000. Gladwell , analogizing from the observed phenomenon in physics, describes the“tipping point” as an event that, previously rare, has become suddenly and dramatically common. Dr. Mark Granovetter , professor of sociology at Stanford University , observed the phenomenon and termed 1t the“threshold model of collective behavior.” Examples abound in economics, human ecology, and epidemiology.