To: Smokin' Joe
The case is being appealed, but the initial ruling holds that the host of a site can be held liable for the statements made by the posters. Interesting. So if someone on DU were to make libelous claims, DU could be held for libel?
But, wait! DU is liberal site. No (liberal/Dem) judge would allow that to go forward (using the current Dem favorite, "No standing").
24 posted on
01/30/2014 3:58:12 PM PST by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: jeffc
It apparently could in Canada...with biased results.
30 posted on
01/30/2014 4:05:45 PM PST by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: jeffc
That happened in a Canadian Court
thread here We need to keep such precedents from happening this side of the border or our 1st Amendment will be dead.
After all, I have no doubt the courts would pursue DU with the same vigour they have pursued the videotaped rants of Malik Shabazz intended to chase away white voters (none at all).
44 posted on
01/30/2014 8:19:09 PM PST by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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