Good News (for people like me) to Start Thursday
Jeff
"Persons who claim that they were harmed by a website's publication of user-generated content may sue the third-party user who generated that content, but they may not sue the interactive computer service that enabled the third-party user to publish the content online," Guirola wrote. "Thus, an interactive computer service is entitled to immunity as long as it did not create or author the particular information at issue."
Full News Story via Webmasterworld and Roger Dooley on Twitter
This isn't a completely new development, it just adds more strength to the already existing Communications Decency Act.
I say good news for people like me because even though I've been threatened with lawsuits somewhere around a dozen times, only once was it for something I said myself (and we're good now). Every other time it was because somebody on one of our sites said something they shouldn't have said or that somebody didn't like.
Long story short, woohoo.
I welcome taking responsibility for what I say or do but it's a different story when it comes to being responsible for somebody who just happens to use one of my sites to be a knucklehead.