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To: Starlight who wrote (7559)3/9/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: Falstaff  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9695
 
From your second link, here is the crux:

"...But people have to realize the Yahoo! financial boards are not the Wall Street Journal."

I have not seen truly libelous postings on SI, but I don't doubt they could happen. Anybody who watches a thread for a while gets a feel for it and can calibrate the noise level. The negative posts I have seen here are just the kind of things I would hear in a bitch session at the local pub.

I certainly hope that this sort of legal activity does not result in the shutdown of the kinds of free expression I have seen on SI. I find it very useful to get such varied opinions, and some of the posts are very insightful (J*MAR could learn a lot--hope they are regular readers...).



To: Starlight who wrote (7559)3/9/1999 9:35:00 PM
From: Richaaard  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 9695
 
I doubt that the lawsuit will go very far but I feel their pain regarding some of the Yahoo message boards. If trashing a company or individual with false information becomes a crime. Could investors who are misled by hypesters also have recourse?

Richard


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