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[jadelennox]

universal_hub_feed links to us, we link back to Adam...

Somerville man loses another lawsuit over stuff posted about him online

A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by Jonathan Monsarrat over postings in a Somerville community forum, saying the forum's moderator did nothing wrong or defamatory when he moved the entire discussion group from a server owned by Russians to one based in the US.

Section 230 is pretty great, y'all. So is the Fair Use doctrine.

Comments

[ron_newman]

Yes, there's a Davis Square Facebook group, which is useful, but I liked it here better. If Dreamwidth only had a mobile app, perhaps we could have kept this going better and not lost so many people and so much traffic to Facebook.

[pru]

I think you are not wrong. we might have done better moving to reddit, even.

[ron_newman]

I like reddit in its own way, but it's quite different from LJ or DW and there isn't any reasonable way to migrate content or accounts between two things that are so dissimilar.

Here are links to the Somerville subreddit and the CambridgeMA subreddit. I'm in both, though not super-active in either.

[pru]

thanks!

weirdly, my most active local groups these days are just for buy-nothing.

[ron_newman]

And here's a Somerville subreddit thread about the lawsuit. I'm participating there, so you can likely easily figure out my Reddit handle now.