Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 5, 2004 @11:10AM from the striking-close-to-home dept.

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."

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In other news.. by wfberg · 2004-08-05 11:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

StephenGalton.Com is still available. Not surprising given this particular individuals net-savviness (hint: none).

OMG my identity will be subpoenad for making that comment!!!!111hundredeleventyone

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