"Are you providing a service where people can get together and discuss a topic of common interest, or are you providing a medium for harassment and abuse?" I have no doubt that there are some people out there who intentionally provide a medium for people who want to accomplish things that are 'abuse.' However, that's a minority. Renderosity, for example, provides a medium for discussing art, software, and selling stuff. That is their purpose. Regardless of how you or I behave, their purpose is to provide the above mentioned things. If you or I take advantage or the system to abuse each other, it is our choice. It's not Renderosity's. "If the medium/site weren't there, the abuse/harassment wouldn't have happened." By this reasoning, Every portion of the Internet is equally responsible. Internic provides domain names that enable routing. The telephone and cable companies provide transfer of the data. The computer manufacturers provide the hardware. Heck, even school teachers are responsible because they provide the language skills. If any of these were removed, the abuse could not have happened. I hope I don't come across as sarcastic - I don't mean to be at all. It just seems that this logic 1). arbitrarily picks only one of many things that make the abuse possible, and 2). is essentially 'shooting the messenger' For the record, I do know that forum owners are held liable. I just don't think it's always right. But then again, I don't always agree with other laws and legal things either. ;-)

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