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Originally Posted by Buster
Great article.
Getting "offended" on behalf of other people is a cottage industry now, and on full display in this thread. The fact that this is essentially the equivalent of high-school gossip seems to get the attention of pro hockey players and internet forum posters. What if the post had said that Phaneuf was a scientologist? or gay? Would you support his ability to restrict freedom of expression in the same way?
I am really curious how CP would react, if one of the posters here got sued because they made a post that said that Phaneuf was playing poorly because he was obviously injured. I very much doubt that the reaction here would be the same type of defense of Phaneuf's rights.
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If people are commenting on the quality of someone's play, they are not going to get sued. It isn't libelous or slanderous. However, online posters have been sued for making libelous comments before.
See here:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...000751306.html
You can say whatever you want unless what you say does harm to another person. Brian Burke was right to defend himself against libelous comments and Phaneuf, Cuthbert, and Lupul are right to do the same.
My point in posting that article is that people shouldn't just dump their brains onto their Twitter feed. People really need to think about what they say because the internet is forever...you can't easily take it back once you put it out there.