One of the perils of enabling comments on one’s site is the chance that someone will write a comment that is damaging to another or even libelous. Public access websites such as Wikipedia, or chat rooms such as AdultDVDTalk or XPT, or comment pages on a site like this one exist in a nebulous area of the law, and recent legal claims of damaging speech or libel with regard to such sites have been mostly fruitless.
That does not mean text contained thereon cannot be used in a court case. Let’s say someone threatens another on a public access website. While the website might escape liability, the words of the commenter can be saved to build a case against him.
See the article “Is an Online Encyclopedia, Such as Wikipedia, Immune From Libel Suits?” here.
Anyway, this morning I caught the following comment in my Inbox awaiting my OK to Publish or Reject it:
I just want to make the announcement that Your favorite porn girl Kami Andrews is throwing a party next Saturday April 14th at her house in { }. There will be a raffle for all the men and winner get to do a Girl boy girl with Kami and Kimi … There will be a 30\$ charge at the door. Thanks.
The commenter, identified as Alek K., gave Kami’s real name – off by one letter – as a gmail address and her correct address, as well as her phone number.
I thought it was odd that Andrews, who keeps up with her fans but who doesn’t give out a lot of personal information, would advertise a sex party in her sleepy Pennsylvania community. So I called her and she informed me that “her ex was starting trouble” and she was going to the police about it. “People have been calling,” she said, because other websites didn’t see anything amiss.
Kami would have charged a lot more, anyway. She’s smart.
Previously: Kami Andrews leaving porn, having never been to me
thanks Gram