deltafox78
New Member
Today I was told that a county was pushing a lawsuit against me over the means of my private forums. These forums are private, when I say that, I mean they are not listed off the main site and can only be found by entering the entire URL. The question I have is what exactly can they charge me with? These forums talk about people running a county in a general aspect (good or bad). Along the same lines, I have a legal disclaimer for those forums:
Here are the highlights which are stated in this disclaimer:
"These forums are for private use only. Posts contained within are opinions of interest that are openly expressed with those who deem to listen with open ears."
*yada, yada* and again says:
The purpose of these forums:
These forums, again, are intended for personal use. They are protected by 'Freedom of Speech' to any US citizen. Everything posted within is to be taken as opinion and not fact.
More general terms, and finally states:
Furthermore, since I cannot control the opinions of other people and as stated in the disclaimer, posts contained within on these private forums are 'personal opinions' of the poster(s). Therefore, anything contained on this BBS does not fall on the responibilities of myself nor the foriegn company hosting my server.
Since these forums and it's diclaimer state that all posts are opinions of the users, how does this fall under any Libal laws (Slander doesn't apply since it's called 'an oral defamation of character')?
Here are the highlights which are stated in this disclaimer:
"These forums are for private use only. Posts contained within are opinions of interest that are openly expressed with those who deem to listen with open ears."
*yada, yada* and again says:
The purpose of these forums:
These forums, again, are intended for personal use. They are protected by 'Freedom of Speech' to any US citizen. Everything posted within is to be taken as opinion and not fact.
More general terms, and finally states:
Furthermore, since I cannot control the opinions of other people and as stated in the disclaimer, posts contained within on these private forums are 'personal opinions' of the poster(s). Therefore, anything contained on this BBS does not fall on the responibilities of myself nor the foriegn company hosting my server.
Since these forums and it's diclaimer state that all posts are opinions of the users, how does this fall under any Libal laws (Slander doesn't apply since it's called 'an oral defamation of character')?