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On a strangely related note: States seek sex offender data from MySpace

Randy, if you are telling the truth, they are probably full of crap. Is it the founder or is it a user that objects?

How does Myspace know who is or is not a sex offender on their site?

I'm not certain. If it's just a user fanboi, then there is obviously nothing to worry about. Lots of times the fanbois go around trying to scare critics by bullying/baiting lawsuits and such. Pathetic.

But there's a chance this particular person was actually an employee of the company. Linden's new employees often spend a good deal of time trawling the blogs and evangelizing the cult. They are also often very defensive to actually find out there are a goodly number of people out there who think it's all a bunch of shit.

Even in this case it's probably nothing to worry. I'm sure if it's an employee (s)he sent an email to their in-house and cried about some meanie on the internet writing bad things.

I still have two little things on my side:

1. The First Amendment
2. The Truth

I'm being accused of lying about my claims. It just so happens that not only am I not lying, but I have a whole folder full of screen shots (of in-game search-engine ads along with clearly provocative imagery) which I had intended to write a blog article on a while back (but someone beat me to it so I never did).

Ironically, I probably have a better libel against them for calling me a liar. lol.

2. The Truth

You will have to prove the truth though. First Amendment is probably your best friend. I actually think any social-networking site would be with you on this. They probably have more to lose.

Randy, does it worth your time?

Not legal advice. I am not a lawyer.

Peter P

I doubt anything will come of it, to be honest. Just pointing out how libel works.

I don't have to prove I'm telling the truth so much as they have to prove I'm lying. That's why libel is very hard and seldom pursued. The truth is absolute defense against libel. Reasonable interpretations of the what one honestly believes to be the truth are usually pretty tight also.

They'd have to convince 12 jurors that I was intentionally lying with the goal of causing harm to their organization. All I'd have to do is show my screen-shots and those 12 jurors would exonerate me and call for the company's management to be sent to the gallows.

People have zero tolerance for child exploitation -- that is unless they are sicko f-ck fanbois in love with their own hand-mouse-keyboard autoerotic addiction.