Beware of Moderating Comments

<blockquote>I'm certainly not a lawyer, but as a widely published writer, I'm well aware that legal precedent holds that if you moderate, edit, or prune comments on your online forum — or blog — in any way at all then you stop being able to defend yourself as a common carrier and become a publisher who is, indeed, liable for the content that they publish.</blockquote><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.intuitive.com/blog/seo_books_aaron_wall_sued_over_comments_on_his_weblog.html">This situation</a> came to my attention from <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/08/is_it_riskier_t.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting">blogspotting</a> and makes for an interesting problem. How liable are you from comments on your blog. I know there has been some legal questions in the local trail being covered by the Gazette blog<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/blog/court/?p=28">Inside the Courtroom: The Tiny Tots Trial</a> that are new ground for courts and blogging so the comment situation is really beginning to flair up.<br />n<br />nI had some problems with my blogging software for the past month or so that sent everything to moderation but I did no actual moderation. The problem is fixed but I will have to keep in mind this situation on commenting to see how it turns out. Interesting Times that's for sure.<br />n<br />n<b>To watch another carrying a load requires no exertion. Chinese proverb</b>