Class Action Suit Against Yahoo For Those Abused On Message Boards
from the it's-illegal-to-flame? dept
A lawyer in California is trying to drum up a class action lawsuit against Yahoo to get them to pay anyone who's been verbally abused on Yahoo's message boards. The lawyer in question is apparently pissed off at Yahoo because they wouldn't tell him who made fun of him on their boards a while back. He eventually sued them, and they gave him whatever info they had, but much of it turned out to be false (no, really, someone gave false info? shocker). So, now, pointing to Yahoo's terms of service that forbid "unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable," posts, the lawyer is trying to put together a class action lawsuit against Yahoo for not living up to stopping those types of posts. Of course, if this succeeds, then it would make sense for most message boards to no longer forbid such posts. This looks like yet another random lawsuit simply picking on a big company because they have money.
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A Barbed Wire World
I see it as the future of the net, though.
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You are just part of the case studies used in Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments is all Dorpus.
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If you think I am a jerk on here
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No Subject Given
you single handedly annoy the vast majority of posters here as well ... the difference is we just make fun of you or ignore you.
The only thing I would believe your good @ " single handedly " is spanking your monkey
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Stephen Galton is a corrupt, incompetent control f
And he smells like fish shit too.
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What do I NOT do?
I do not assume many guises and identities, have flame wars with myself, and drag down the level of discussion. I do not spam advertisements on here. I do not make death threats against Mike or other posters; why, I rarely respond to taunts. I do not post links to Techdirt on dark corners of the internet, nor do I make DoS attacks on the server. In summary, I have no plans to bring down techdirt, like I have other sites.
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We bow at your feet with praise for your mercy and grace.
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What a charming bit of humanity you are Dorpus.
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