The Knesset has decided to freeze legislation regulating readers' ability to respond to articles via the so-called "Talkback Law."
The Science and Technology Committee agreed to freeze the law in an effort to allow web sites to practice self-regulation.
The Talkback Law, submitted by MK Yoel Hasson (Yisrael Beiteinu), passed its preliminary reading, It would make web sites responsible for the talkbacks of its readers as though they were articles of the site itself in terms of libel.