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Originally Posted by PONTIAC DUDE
John. I think it's the other way around. Forums can't be held responsible for poster content. At least that's what I read about 6 years ago.
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Ken-
The owners of a forum can certainly be drug into court because of threads posted on their boards. Happened to a friend of mine that runs a car board; apparently there was a thread that mentioned street racing and she got drug into court (when someone got injured at a street race) for "promoting" street racing. After many thousands of dollars spent on lawyers she finally got the case dismissed, but it was a very hard deal for her and her family to go through and almost wiped them out.
Another friend of mine runs another board and he has been contacted by lawyers many times asking to remove content.
As far as "the situation" being discussed, IMO it was handled poorly by the vendor.