Yahoo pulls Lopez web site (*UPDATED)
The Save Jenny's Kids Web site has been shut down by Yahoo!, according to Jude Lopez.
"They said it violated their terms of service," Lopez said. "Show me where I did wrong. I'll correct what I did wrong."
But, thanks to the magic of Google you can still view it right here.
The site, devoted to the case of Jennifer Dejongh, from the perspective of her parents had been in operation for about a month. Their MySpace is still active.
Dejongh and her three children disappeared in November after she was ordered to turn the children over to U.S. Rep. Gary Miller, the children's grandfather. Miller's son Brian is the boy's father and he has filed suit against Lopez for libel, slander and defamation of character.
Some of the slanderous comments were apparently made on the John and Ken Show. The libelous statements were attributed to postings Lopez made on a site devoted to missing and exploited children.
*I did a whois look up for the site and it shows that Yahoo put a security lock on the domain.
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Do the tentacles of Rep. Miller extend even to cyber space?
THERE ARE LOTS OF SERVERS OUT THERE THAT MILLER CAN'T BULLY OR THREATEN.WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 1ST AMENDMENT?
I didn't realize what a "class act" Yahoo was. I'll have to renew with them.
Slander, libel, defamation are all against the terms of service with the various hosting services when you take a free ride.
To call someone an abuser or make other allegations without some sort of conviction or hard evidence that is to support the claim you have grounds to sue for slander, libel or defamation. That is civil lawsuit handling 101.
Making an accusation of some wrong doing during the course of a custody hearing or an investigation doesn't make them true. At least not true enough to shield one from the deadly trio of personal injury.
Absent those same facts, well someone can contact the ISP and say it is slander, libel and defamation and ask that the ISP take down the site as it violates their terms of service.
We've seen a few blogs have posts removed or shut down in the area because of similar complaints. What is posted has to be factual or supported, absent that you can get it taken down.
Miller may have had a hand in reporting it but the ISP has to make the call. It might not even been him, ANYONE can make the call.
A few years back, someone put my name as a URL link to a pronographic site. Personally and professionally, it was demeaning, degrading: and it wasn't me. Google took it down when the owner of the site tried to balk.
Internet servers and the like are essentially publishers. Of equal importance to "rights" are "responsibilities". If you make a charge against someone- you need to be able to not just believe it. You need to be able to prove it or back off. Or we are no better off than in the days of Salem Witch hunts.