Please refer to this post http://consumers.creditnet.com/stra...read.php?s=&pgnum=1&postid=128005#post128005. I am NOT an ogre...just a "kuntry texan with piss-poor credit" trying to get a 600 (FICO). I do apologize Marci and please see the thread intended for you and the others.
I think the issue of website owners being held liable for messages posted on their public message boards has already been dealt with - they are not. But I can see why they wouldn't want to tempt fate, LOL. Some lawyer some where just might figure out a new twist. Personally, I think the thread was hilarious. People who go into that line of work know that they will be subjected to abuse of all sorts, because they dish out abuse of all sorts. It is part of the job. If they leave their number on an answering machine, they are asking for it, IMO.
breeze, I could be wrong, but isn't it a mixed bag? There were a couple of cases, one involving "warez" serial numbers and another involving child pornography, where the discussion board webmasters were required to take down their boards entirely. I'd like to know more about cases like those where illegal activity was organized and planned on a discussion board. In cases involving simple libel, the webmaster isn't liable. So, for example, if I post that PsychDoc's father is a crackhead and an idiot and a mean-spirited SOB, Creditnet would not be liable if PsychDoc's father brought a libel lawsuit. On the other hand, if I posted here that I was holding casting calls on this board for a hitman, and others here actively participated in those calls, then Creditnet might indeed be liable. Anyway, I'm obviously not a lawyer, and you probably know more than I do, but it is an interesting topic regardless. Doc P.S. PsychDoc's father is not a crackhead. That's all I'll say.
I think we're talking a whole other kind of "illegal". Like, the feds were probably involved. Those were most likely criminal cases, not civil.
