Various experts in the United Kingdom are discussing how best to handle defamatory comments online. Some are saying the defamatory comments should remain.
Web hosts and ISPs should be allowed to keep allegedly defamatory comments online as long as the author of the comment is identified and a notice of complaint is published alongside the comment, a Parliamentary committee has recommended.
Of course, the United Kingdom is not the same court system as the United States–but they are somewhat related. If you’re wondering “how does this help to protect my reputation?” Good question–I have no idea.