{"id":138,"date":"2006-11-22T09:39:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2006-11-22T09:39:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:39:36","slug":"so-sue-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"So Sue Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 17px; padding-top: 0pt\" class=\"paragraph Body\"><span>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=65\">earlier post<\/a><\/span><span>, I wondered whether I could get sued for libelous comments that other people leave on my site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px\" class=\"paragraph Body\"><span>Apparently, in most states, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. And now the California Supreme Court has joined the majority (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20061122\/a_libel22.art.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20061122\/a_libel22.art.htm\">link<\/a><span>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17px\" class=\"paragraph Body\">Interestingly, this is all spelled out (so they say) in the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which was passed federally, but has been challenged and upheld in several states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 17px\" class=\"paragraph Body\"><span>[I found this story on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/howappealing.law.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/howappealing.law.com\/\">How Appealing<\/a><span>.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, I wondered whether I could get sued for libelous comments that other people leave on my site. Apparently, in most states, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. And now the California Supreme Court has joined the majority (link). Interestingly, this is all spelled out (so they say) in the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}