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Class Action Suit Against Yahoo For Those Abused On Message Boards







Class Action Suit Against Yahoo For
Those Abused On Message Boards

Class Action Suit Against Yahoo For
Those Abused On Message Boards
08/05/2004 07:14 PM

A lawyer in California is trying to drum up a class action lawsuit against Yahoo to get them to pay anyone who's been verbally abused on Yahoo's message boards. The lawyer in question is apparently pissed off at Yahoo because they wouldn't tell him who made fun of him on their boards a while back. He eventually sued them, and they gave him whatever info they had, but much of it turned out to be false (no, really, someone gave false info? shocker). So, now, pointing to Yahoo's terms of service that forbid "unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable," posts, the lawyer is trying to put together a class action lawsuit against Yahoo for not living up to stopping those types of posts. Of course, if this succeeds, then it would make sense for most message boards to no longer forbid such posts. This looks like yet another random lawsuit simply picking on a big company because they have money.




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