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Originally Posted by spazlabz
in their faqs they say they have been sued several times and won each time... serious doushbaggery right here. The extortion is the fee for the work they have to do to remove a profile, yeah right
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That statement in their FAQ is an obvious lie.
How do I know?
Look up the domain creation date; it's October 28, 2012. There is
no way in hell that they have been sued, and the cases have been fully adjudicated, "on many occasions" in the amount of time that site has existed. No way.
The wheels of civil jurisprudence simply do not turn that quickly.
Let's say someone filed a lawsuit against them the day after that domain was created; by now, they
might have been through a pretrial hearing or two on matters of jurisdiction and standing...
maybe. In all likelihood, though, the case wouldn't even be that far along.
If what they'd like us to believe is that they have been awarded multiple very quick summary judgments and dismissals in that time, because the cases never got past the first motion to dismiss, then I'm still calling bullshit.
Judges aren't quick to dismiss a case that appears to have at least some merit, and despite their claim about being covered by Section 230, the fact that they charge to have profiles removed would definitely give a judge pause, even if he thought their CDA argument was compelling.
The legal information in their FAQ was written by someone with a decent basic understanding of Section 230 of the CDA (although, most likely, much of that text was lifted from another site, possibly one with a more legitimate claim of having ironclad Section 230 immunity), but IMO, the author of it also happens to be entirely full of shit.
