Re: [APD] Legal implications of free speech...

[Jerry Baker <jerry at bakerweb_biz>]

Robert H wrote:
> If your opinion is asked for that is one thing, but when someone takes it 
> upon themselves to go on a mission to privately contact anyone at any 
> opportunity for unsolicited feedback, it is just as dangerous and 
> irresponsible. A year or two ago a vendor in AZ was getting a flood of 
> negative comments on the internet. At some point a couple people started 
> giving people this feedback in private email and private forums. But some of 
> these people who were recieving these comments were actually satisfied 
> customers of this vendor and forwarded the messages to the vendor. Every 
> business has to deal with this, particularly on the internet. I have had my 
> own problems to deal with. What I learned out of the whole legal ordeal was 
> for myself anyway, that to be responsible I need to determin where the line 
> is from being informative and being vindictive just because I was "wronged". 
> It is an easy line to cross.

As long as you are not making statements that you know to be false in 
order to damage the reputation of a business, you're legally in the 
clear. What should have happened in an ideal world is that after Novak's 
game was over, everyone should have then filed cases against him to 
recover expenses and lost time. That way the silly lawsuit wouldn't have 
just cost him his business, but probably his house, car, and any other 
assets. If that didn't cover it, having the state attach his paychecks 
for a few years might have driven the message home.

-- 
Jerry Baker
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