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Originally posted by candyflip
This is a public forum regardless of who owns it. The site owner has no responsibilty for the thoughts and words of individual posters.
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slippery slope ahead.
yes they do if they have been informed of possible defamatory statements and fail to delete them.
CEO of an auction company was able to sue posters, and the bulletin board owners succesfully on a number of occassions.
One board owner in particular *the largest auction bbs on the net* finally made it a rule you couldn't even mention the auction site in order to avoid anymore legal hassles.
However nothing defamatory going on here...text saying 16 was on the site, and the meta tags did include words like preteen, 13-19 etc.