Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to another blog entry at this site:
No one is telling you that you cannot express your views. However, it is wrong for you to expect that you can express them on other people’s forums.
No, it isn’t.
Any forum owner who bans someone solely for posting honestly on the topic of the forum is committing an act of financial fraud. That person thereby makes himself responsible for all losses suffered by people who read his forum thinking that it was a legitimate and non-corrupt enterprise.
If you don’t believe me, wait and see what your jury says following the next price crash.
We adopted the laws against financial fraud for a good reason.
I have every right in the world to post honestly at every board and blog on the internet. So do all of the thousands of people who over the course of the past 12 years have expressed a desire that honest posting be permitted.
You are wrong about this. As wrong as wrong can be. I am sure.
“Any forum owner who bans someone solely for posting honestly on the topic of the forum is committing an act of financial fraud.”
You are an idiot.
(You know, just in case you somehow forgot.)
Not only are you proven innumerate and insisting on dabbling in numbers, you are also (acting?) completely ignorant of the law, and wanting to pontificate on that topic, too!
Pretty sad for a college educated JD, don’t you think?
Rob,
Who makes the determination of what is “honest” . Also, please state specific case law that supports your conclusion that banning someone from a website is considered fraud.
It’s your jury that will determine the matter, Anonymous.
I wish you the best of luck with it.
Rob
Who makes the determination of what is “honest” .
Under our system, the jury makes the ultimate determination for legal purposes. But you obviously know this without asking me.
Also, please state specific case law that supports your conclusion that banning someone from a website is considered fraud.
There’s lot of caselaw on what constitutes financial fraud. You obviously possess the same ability to research caselaw that I possess.
This is the first case I know of where a group of Wall Street Con Men and their Internet Goon Squads used board bannings to keep millions of middle-class investors from learning what the peer-reviewed research says. The people on your jury will be people who have lost most of their life savings as a result of your massive con. I feel pretty darn confident re how your case is going to be decided.
But I am not God. I have been wrong before. We will have to wait for the next crash to come to see how long your prison sentence will be.
Fair enough?
Rob