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Discussion board sued over defamatory posts

Unread postby Plantagenet » Mon 18 Jun 2007, 00:20:26

Plantiffs in lawsuit seeks damages from web site and a couple dozen nasty anonymous posters

http://www.reuters.com/article/domestic ... RSS&rpc=22

This kind of legal development is a good reason to encourage posters to remain civil and avoid ad hominum attacks and to thank the mods here for keeping the personal attacks to a minimum. :-D
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Re: Discussion board sued over defamatory posts

Unread postby jboogy » Mon 18 Jun 2007, 18:47:03

hurt me naughty talk
scrumtrulescent,isn't it?
pay the lawyer man
how's that plantaingenetic? [smilie=wav.gif]
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Re: Discussion board sued over defamatory posts

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Mon 18 Jun 2007, 19:14:08

{Wonderfully off-topic posts removed by emersonbiggins and split to What's the deal with NAMBLA?}
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Re: Discussion board sued over defamatory posts

Unread postby cynicalheretic » Mon 18 Jun 2007, 20:03:09

I think its a great Idea. I think those posters should spend ten years in prision getting sodomized themselves
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Re: Discussion board sued over defamatory posts

Unread postby Baldwin » Mon 18 Jun 2007, 22:37:07

The last earthly frontier...the internet....now seems to be being fenced in.
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Re: Discussion board sued over defamatory posts

Unread postby Falconoffury » Tue 19 Jun 2007, 01:25:58

Use one of the thousands of free proxy servers out there. You could post whatever you wanted without fear of being identified. By the time they started raiding the proxy server owners for information, things will already be so bad, it would be the last of our worries.
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Re: Discussion board sued over defamatory posts

Unread postby vision-master » Tue 19 Jun 2007, 20:29:21

Go here, one of the last places on the Net that allows freedom of speech.

Planted Agent would get beat up sooo bad over there.

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