Judge rules in favor of site sued for comments
Cory Bergman June 27th, 2008
It’s what many media folks are still worried about: what if someone posts a comment on our site that gets us sued? Well, a federal court has ruled that ConsumerAffairs.com can’t be held responsible for user comments that blasted car dealers. Very good news.
6 Comments Add your own
1. db | June 27th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
This is unsurprising — the CDA and case history is pretty clear about this issue, and it’s been that way for a decade.
2. John Proffitt | June 27th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
While the safe harbor concepts are pretty well established, it’s still good news to see them get applied again.
I suppose the real headline here could be: “Judge upholds laws as written and intended”
3. tdc | June 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
someone said this here a few days ago, “sometimes the comments are better than the actual story”.
a great example of this is the boulder daily camera (dailycameradotcom).
not only is boulder a wild city, its citizenry has pretty good sense of humor.
their comments are unmoderated and very few are flagged for deletion, lending itself to the idea that a community will self-police itself (like here!)
4. Liz | June 27th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Seems like a no-brainer, but so many ridiculous lawsuits go through these days, it’s good to hear that this isn’t one more thing to worry about.
5. tdc | June 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am
whoever is in charge of launching the $mart$avings vertical should know that’s a direct mail magazine in florida. logoing looks a bit too similar, too.
launch first, research later. good strategy.
6. tdc | June 29th, 2008 at 5:52 am
btw- they have some slick promo videos on youtube.
if someone over there can swallow their pride long enough to drop me a line, i’ll explain why ClickOnSavings is far more intuitive (and webby). also, how we’ll lend it to “you” for $1.
yes, $1
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