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Court Rules Website Immune From Suit For Defamatory Posting
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "RipoffReport.com contained an admittedly defamatory posting, by one of its users, about a person who operated a Florida corporation providing addiction treatment services. Although the site was asked by the poster herself to remove the post, it refused. A Florida appeals court has ruled that the site is absolutely immune from suit (pdf), and cannot even be directed to remove the offending post, since under the Communications Decency Act (47 USC 230) 'no cause of action may be brought' against a provider of an "interactive computer service" based upon information provided by a 3rd party."
How the fuck is this modded so highly as "funny"
Your comment is less funny than the disgusting stories that sometimes get first posted, and way more intellectually insulting. Men do the exact fucking thing.
And no one dare say "welcome to the Internet". That's no excuse to be a dick. I'm very sure you knew how insulting your post would be since you posted it as a literal anonymous coward. This doesn't only happen on the Internet. People see this shit and regurgitate it in every context, and I'm guessing you will never know what it's like.
I'm an intellectual female, and I read /. for the comments. I always expect way better than this here. After reading TFS (well, headline), and scrolling down, this isn't the shit I want to see. I already have to deal with it everywhere else, so fuck you for bringing this into one of the most civilized sites I've come across, and fuck everyone who honestly thought this was funny enough to mod up.
It's pretty evident you have no idea what it's like to be a woman in a tech field. How many times I've been ignored, only for someone with a penis to say the exact same thing and get credit. How many times I've lost opportunities because I have tits.
So stop insulting us, and get back to making car analogies and welcoming new overlords.