I’m sure someone else has said this, but I think it’s about time to sue for defamation of character. Granted that they're wrong about FR, but really -- whose character is being defamed? The vast, vast majority of us are completely anonymous.
A lawsuit over something like this is like going home crying to mother. If FReepers are going to play with the Big Boys, FReepers had better be able to take the same sorts of accusations we dish out to the Big Boys.
And before you sue ... I'm pretty sure that "their" lawyers (whoever "they" are) would be able to find plenty of stuff on FR to convince a jury that our defamation suit was unwarranted.
Re: " A lawsuit over something like this is like going home crying to mother. If FReepers are going to play with the Big Boys, FReepers had better be able to take the same sorts of accusations we dish out to the Big Boys. And before you sue ... I'm pretty sure that "their" lawyers (whoever "they" are) would be able to find plenty of stuff on FR to convince a jury that our defamation suit was unwarranted." I agree. They are entitled to their opinion. Instead, we should just post some of the material that appears at MySpace.com, which is owned by the same people who own Fox News.
Seen at MySpace.com (News Corp entity)
http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewThread&groupID=0&page=0&EntryID=3072198&CategoryID=70&get=1&adTopicId=16&keyword=politics&xargstringp=&xargstringn=&lastpagesent=1&Mytoken=E24D0BFC-1A2D-4E49-A2E85AAA1F6C82C053773076
Displayed at News Corp's MySpace.com
Displayed at News Corp's MySpace.com
Glass houses. Stones.
If Fox talks about Free Republic being a "hate site," plenty of things can be said about MySpace.com as well, on the basis of what is shown above. For the record, I reported this user (and another, who posted the other two anti-Semitic cartoons) to MySpace yesterday, so we will see what happens.