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Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook

Posted by samzenpus on from the sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones-and-fake-profiles-will-always-hurt-me dept.

schwit1 writes Parents can be held liable for what their kids post on Facebook, a Georgia appellate court ruled in a decision that lawyers said marked a legal precedent on the issue of parental responsibility over their children's online activity. The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that the parents of a seventh-grade student may be negligent for failing to get their son to delete a fake Facebook profile that allegedly defamed a female classmate.

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  1. Why not? When you have kids.. by saloomy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If your kids happen to make money, parents control that money until they are 18. They should also suffer the liability as well. You can't have one without the other. Either children are responsible or they are not.