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Forum's Not Liable for Poster Comments according to Ruling

Old Nov 20, 2006 | 08:06 PM
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Default Forum's Not Liable for Poster Comments according to Ruling

Here's the full article, I'll sum it up and tac this one up as a win in my opinion!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...Aqo&refer=home


Essentially it has just been ruled that Forum, boards, websites (like myspace.com) etc can not be held liable for defamatory statements. So If I wanted to post something that said someone is a dofus and list an e-mail that they sent me I could do that wherever I wanted and only I would be liable. Which is the way that I think it should be. I don't see why someone should be able to sue myspace.com for providing a place for people to post and then coming under legal attack when someone degrades the name of another person.... That's like suing a paper company for kidnapping since the kidnapping note was written on their paper!! It's about time people take responsibility for their actions online.
 
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