Re: [OT] legal poition on personal posts on a forum

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

According to the wife - the forum are as responsible for their content as
the person who posted it. The business in question would have a case
against
both **if** the comment was not true. Given it is almost impossible for the
forum owners to verify this they must take the safe route I guess.

Chris

----Original Message Follows----
From: Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] legal poition on personal posts on a forum
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 07:43:00 +1200



Paul Gale wrote:
> I was asking because a certain forum I use deletes all messages that
are
considered 'controversial' i.e. "this supplier gave me bad service as
they
took 3 weeks to ship an item they said was in stock" etc...
>
> I was wondering if the forum operators really had grounds to do this.
I
know they can do whatever they like as it's their board and I agreed to
their conditions but was wondering from a legal point of view.

They are making it worse for themselves, as that means anything they dont
delete, they are agreeing with.


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