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Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling
Yardboy writes "Yahoo! News has a story concerning one Stephen Galton who has filed a class-action lawsuit against Yahoo claiming the company 'unfairly protected people who post negative messages on its bulletin boards and falsely advertised that it prevents such abusive messages.' Seems he was subjected to name-calling (such as shyster) when he signed up under the username 'stephengalton' in order to respond to a negative post about an unidentified client. As other users chimed in with negative remarks, Galton filed suit against them (it's not clear from the story for what) and sought their personal information from Yahoo via a subpoena. The lawsuit seeks restitution, a permanent injunction and other forms of relief. What's really interesting is all the message board posts relating to the story have been deleted."
The State vs. @55|-|@t-84
... but you're a weenie!
Wonder how this Lawyer is gonna feel when he sees a zillion Slashdot users calling him "Loser" or worse...and lemme guess next case... Lawyer vs. The rest of us...*sigh*
I nominate this litigious asshole to be a Lawyer in Space... With no space suit.
1. Get insulted on slashdot
2. Sue Slashdot and those who insulted
3. Profit!
Man, that applies to me in so many other online forums... I could make billions... or even millions! Bwahahaha!
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
Well then, if someone's being defamed or libeled, and all the defamatory or libelous comments are deleted, then any accusation that the message board that hosted the defamatory or libelous comments would be questionable at best. One might go so far as to say that the sort of person who'd press a suit accusing the message board provider of negligence in such a situation was an ambulance-chasing shyster with less personal appeal than the Goatse Guy... except, of course, that anyone who said such a thing would probably open themselves up to a defamation of character suit from Mr. Goatse himself.
If this lawyer sings up for an account on Slashdot, he's gonna have a field day.
"You know Myra, some people might think you're cute. But me, I think you're one very large baked potato."
What if slashdot got sued (via class action lawsuit) for all the trolls?
Red Bull gave me wings and I flew into the ceiling fan.
The problem with lawyers is that 99% of them give the rest a bad name.
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
His real name is Steven Bosell.
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Apparently not, since the posts are all deleted.
Incidently, here in america, we use litigation for everything. Just the morning I used litigation to open a mayonnaise jar that was wouldn't open.
Till the name "Stephen Galton" is Google bombed with the word "shyster"?
Shhhh! If he finds out about /. we're all screwed!
I'm sure a jury will have no problem finding you guilty.
My sig is blank, I typed this by hand.
.... we have to remove all the lawyer jokes from teh internet?
... the lawyer is just a pussy,
/. is going to be sued.
Oh, great. Now all of
I had a friend who would use Lynx to get on Linux newsgroups about 4 years ago and start hilarious flamewars by just typing stuff like "Linux is gay" ( even though he was using it)...man, did poeple ever FLIP OUT. We used to have hours of fun, that is until our Windows servers(companys choice, not ours) crashed again............
"When you can't spell, you look like an idiot in front of us all. Go back to 3rd grad and try again."
Sorry, Mr. Coward, but "grade" has an E in it.
I'm sure a jury will have no problem finding you guilty.
NOT so fast, there. I was snacking on twinkies and coffee; so clearly my violation of the "User Agrees To Preview Each Comment" clause of the slashdot EULA is not MY fault, but the fault of Hostess and Foldgers coffee.
Boy is that man ugly! I think that with a mug like that, he should have sued his mother for punitive damages.
You may get out of that lawsuit, but you are still clearly in violation of my patent "Decanting a glass, plastic, or other receptacle containing an egg/oil emulsion for food flavoring or other purposes."
I don't think anybody would be impressed by a "butload" of emails. Common usage suggests that a buttload is in between 3 and a dozen.
Clearly, impressive levels would be more in the "metric fuck ton" range.
God, I need sleep.
There's so little difference between politics and jihad lately...
As opposed to us idiots who have nothing better to do than sit around all day pretending that they are making a difference in technology.
Coffee cancles the effect of Twinkie induced madness. Twinkies also only work on murder, sub murder doesn't count.
"This is you left and that's your left. This is your right and that's your right. You're gonna die!
my patent "Decanting a glass, plastic, or other receptacle containing an egg/oil emulsion for food flavoring or other purposes."
However, that can be worked around via my patent of "dipping into the jar", which is available royalty-free under an open-license for anyone who does not have similar patents or who makes their own patents available to the public on similar terms.
We've secretly replaced Slashdot with new Folgers Crystals - let's see if it notices.
This is to inform you that you are facing a summary lawsuit for use of a "not-entirely-pointy not-very-sharp bladed object" to dispense your "mayo". Although we don't have any evidence that you actually used one of my patent-pending devices, my lawyers and I are making the assumption based on the fact that only a terrorist would use a spoon to dispence mayo. And you're not a terrorist, are you? ;)
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
I believe the relevent term for this guy is: pwn3d
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Whereas if your story makes the slashdot front page, you can take it as a given that sooner or later someone is going to google about looking for you, find a photo of you, and link to it for all the world to see that you really do look like "overly robust geezer that makes a living walking behind the elephant with a shovel."
Man, if I looked like that, I'd be busy keeping my self out of public view, not inspiring the whole planet to take a look at my fat, ugly, shyster mug!
I find your ideas intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
If I had a penny for every time I've been called a name on a message board, flamed in IRC, or warned on AOL Instant Messenger, I'd have no need to pursue this CIS degree I'm currently working on. Get over it man. There are some things in life you can't live with. For everything else, there's ignorance.
Only those of you with mod points!
I knew there was an advantage to being a newbie.
Meh. Broad and speculative claim. That'll never stand up to scrutiny in court. Clearly you're attempting to use the patent in an anti-competitive way, look forwards to my lawsuit, buddy.
Your litigiously,
Mr. Heinz.
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"I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything that I thought it could be."
Heh, heh...let's see /. get out of this one...
Reminds me of the guy in San Francisco who was interviewed on the street by a local TV station running a story on why people hate lawyers.
He said it was because lawyers were lying, cheating, back-stabbing, no-good, whatever, I don't remember the exact words.
They asked him what he did for a living.
He said, "I'm a lawyer."
A couple of weeks later, they did a follow-up story. It seems this guy was just out of law school and was looking for a job with a local law firm.
He got a ton of offers from local law firms after his ten second spot in the original interview.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
What do you think he paid law school with?
-- Put crudely, the world is an extremely large problem instance. (Russel/Norvig Artificial Intelligence)
Do this:
Sit down and write out a simple, WORKING legal code that will address all aspects of society.
Let us know when you're done.
Slashdot claims it has a moderation system to prevent people abusing the discussions.
Not only are abusive posts about me not removed, they are consistently moderated up to "+5 Funny".
Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated up.