Replies to post #48320 on e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

[ucansee]

chowderhead - you stated - "You can discuss the principals of a public company and call them dirty rotten scoundrels in public because they lead their professional lives in public."

Yes and no. You can't liable or slander them. There are laws for everything and first-amendment priveleges don't extend in some cases.

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=1542321

In a case where an electronics firm argued an America Online subscriber was libeling it, and where AOL relied on Hustler Magazine v. Falwell to defend its user's First Amendment rights, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that AOL must reveal the member's identity.

Responding to an Internet posting about it, Hong Kong-based Nam Tai Electronics Inc. sued various unnamed parties in a California court alleging libel and violations of California unfair business practices law. Among the postings, which appeared on a Yahoo! investment site, were some by an entity using the screen name "scovey2."

In one message, titled "Sinking Again," scovey2 said, "Sinking is not a province in China but an observation of this company's stock market performance. This low tech crap that they produce is in an extremely competitive and low profitability industry. I see see-sawing of the stock with no real direction. (See-sawing is also not a province.)"

Description Virginia high court held that under rules of comity, a Virginia Internet service provider must submit to a deposition to provide information for use in litigation in California that involves an unidentified subscriber accused of defamation.

[drag and boogie]

lol chowder......but.........i disagree.

it is my PRIVATE MONEY at risk here and anyone attacking the company

should be subject to scrutiny as well.

it is easy to claim the company is a scam. not one poster has been able to prove it.

those that keep trying should not be allowed to post.

on the other side anyone posting non factual hype should follow the same rules.

the only way i could be grateful for it is if i were a daytrader here and play the roller coaster.

of course JMHO.

[Cassandra]

The real issue on these boards is to keep them on topic - related to the company being discussed, pro or con. That means that the executives who run the company are fair game for discussion and people are free to express their opinions of them.

However, as you said, attacking other posters is off topic and distracts from the real issues about the company. That's why iHub does not allow it on the stock boards.

Anyone who wants to engage in personal attacks can go to the RB cesspool or even to the iHub parking lot board. Posters on agora are also free to attack people as long as those people aren't pro EDIG.

iHub isn't perfect, but it's by far the most balanced and civil of the EDIG message boards.

FWIW, I do not believe that FF and RP post on these boards, but I believe they read them religiously.