08.27.05
Blogger Aaron Wall of SEOBook is being sued by company called Traffic Power for defamation and disclosing trade secrets. From The Blog Herald:
If successful the case has the potential to cause major upheaval in the blogosphere as comments would need to be filtered in cases where there was even the slightest chance someone might sue or find the comment offensive or disagree with it.
Might be time to update the disclosure and editorial statement.
Related: As blogging grows, companies eye legal pitfalls
Is it riskier to moderate blog comments?
(Cross-posted on The Language Artist)
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