Originally Posted by westcoaststyle
If a woman can spill coffee on herself and make money on it, a private owner of a web board can be sued by some dumbass that says he got the idea to run his car head first into a wall while racing an elderly man driving his scooter store scooter from here.
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Exactly.
I was the president of a national automotive club a few years back. During my tenure I learned about "tacit approval" which means that if you don't take an active role in discouraging certain behaviors, you are in terms of the tort law endorsing them and you can be held liable.
It's yet another thing to blame lawyers for screwing up. And it's really hard to blame people for covering their asses when it may well be YOUR Mom/Wife/dog walker that could be doing the suing.
"Free speech" means you're free to start your own message board with your own freedom of expression, not that you have a pulpit anywhere you see fit and that CONGRESS will not infringe on that right. Any congressional types here?
