Federal court rules comments on public website not private
When a UC Berkeley student expressed her dislike of her hometown on myspace.com, her comment ended up in the newspaper. A federal court ruled that she cannot sue the newspaper but can pursue a claim against the high school principal for sending the comment to the newspaper which could be found to intentionally inflict emotional distress. -DB Metropolitan News-Enterprise April 6, 2009 By Kenneth Ofgang Comments posted on a publicly accessible website are not private,