Mitchell Reinstated, an example...

rschneider said:
Don't care either way, but you Jon are not to be held liable for information posted by users on your site. Maybe I'm wrong, but this is how sites like Backpage, Topic and Craigslist get away with some of the darkers stuff on their sites.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (a common name for Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996) is a landmark piece of Internet legislation in the United States, codified at 47 U.S.C. § 230. Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by others:
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
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In analyzing the availability of the immunity offered by this provision, courts generally apply a three-prong test. A defendant must satisfy each of the three prongs to gain the benefit of the immunity:

  1. The defendant must be a "provider or user" of an "interactive computer service."
  2. The cause of action asserted by the plaintiff must treat the defendant as the "publisher or speaker" of the harmful information at issue.
  3. The information must be "provided by another information content provider," i.e., the defendant must not be the "information content provider" of the harmful information at issue.
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One cannot take one part of the football rule book and make a proper interpretation of a football play. Any trained official will tell you there are multiple rules or parts of rules in the rule book that ALL need to be interpreted in order to make the right call.

I have a feeling the same can be said in this instance regarding the interpretation of things like libel and slander. It is kind of amusing that Jon explains that he met a legal expert (edited from me originally calling him a licensed practicing attorney, sorry) who says the administrator can be held responsible and you don't claim to be a legal expert (so I assume you aren't one) and you trot out one part of one law as your proof this legal expert must be wrong.
 
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JonDMiller said:
of why I delete damning rumors from this forum. The stuff that some people came and shared as straight up hearsay, those things were clearly BS and they were also slanderous. THAT's why I delete these types of things before facts come out, why I always have and always will. Please don't post such garbage here.
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CYA is A-OK
 
MelroseHawkins said:
I wonder why they had to drive him back to Iowa City from Ames so quickly for something that seemed to be resolved fairly fast. An article stated Iowa learned of a letter received when in Ames and someone drove him back.
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My guess is that, not knowing exactly what sort of issue DM was dealing with, Ferentz didn't want to have a potentially ineligible player on the sideline for a game. I don't know the rules around ineligible players being at vs. participating in games are but I would imagine he didn't want to jeopardize our status as it relates to the game.
 
Maybe Dev made the trip to Ames, but the bus dropped him off at Hickory Park on the way to Jack Trice South Endzone!OMG! Field, where Dev sipped pristine Ames Water!(TM) and munched on a rack of impeccably prepared ribs whilst the Hox stuffed Cy back into the locker.
 
ThunderHawk said:
Maybe Dev made the trip to Ames, but the bus dropped him off at Hickory Park on the way to Jack Trice South Endzone!OMG! Field, where Dev sipped pristine Ames Water!(TM) and munched on a rack of impeccably prepared ribs whilst the Hox stuffed Cy back into the locker.
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You get a thumbs up just for mentioning the famed Hickory House.
 
JonDMiller said:
of why I delete damning rumors from this forum. The stuff that some people came and shared as straight up hearsay, those things were clearly BS and they were also slanderous. THAT's why I delete these types of things before facts come out, why I always have and always will. Please don't post such garbage here.
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A very prominent member of the media posted a very serious allegation against this athlete. I haven't seen or heard any retraction from him.
 
ShemHawk said:
My guess is that, not knowing exactly what sort of issue DM was dealing with, Ferentz didn't want to have a potentially ineligible player on the sideline for a game. I don't know the rules around ineligible players being at vs. participating in games are but I would imagine he didn't want to jeopardize our status as it relates to the game.
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I thought Kirk made it fairly clear that he simply didn't want any distractions 24 hours before the game, so he sent DM home to deal with it when the team returned.
 
There are two ways to have the biggest and best building in town. One way is to buy the best materials and construct your building in the most structurally sound way know to man. The other way is to try destroy everyone else's building and have the best building in town by default.

Now, according to some on Hawkeye Nation I am selling meth out of that building. :)
 
94HawkMA said:
A very prominent member of the media posted a very serious allegation against this athlete. I haven't seen or heard any retraction from him.
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Who was it? And what was the context? Because it sounds to me like slander/libel depending on the medium used.
 
I'm just glad this little drama (which should not ever have even been a public drama it seems) is over. I really really hope we get to see the young man run the ball on Saturday. Our running game, with the right RB, has a chance to be special imo.
 
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