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School Official Sues Over MySpace Page
SoCal writes, "How much legal liability do parents have for what their kids do online? A lawsuit filed in Texas by a high-school assistant principal may give some answers. Some students she had disciplined set up a fake MySpace page in her name depicting her as a lesbian (which she happens not to be). In its coverage, Ars Technica notes that 'What sets this case apart from many other lawsuits filed over the content of blogs is that it doesn't target only the teenagers who created the site. It also argues that the parents were guilty of negligence by failing to supervise their children, and that they bear some of the responsibility for the defaming site.'" The article links the Media Law Resource Center's resource tracking more than 50 cases now in the courts nationwide, in which bloggers have been sued for libel and related claims.
Trolling trolling trolling. Someone mod this guy down, PLEASE!!!
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
If the children describe their teacher as a %(*#^@! on a piece of paper and make photocopies for possible viewing by lots of others, should we blame whover made the paper, whoever delivered the paper, the tree pulp, the copy machine, etc.? If the paper is a webpage, should we blame the site's registered owner, the webhost, the ISPs, all the hops between the server and anyone who can access the page, whoever provided the PC's? Suing MySpace for kids pages containing claims of dubious veracity, defamation, libel, etc., reminds me of the idiots who waste resources suing gun manufacturers.
Now how hasn't that gotten a funny mod yet? I mean seriously... ;-)
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