Comments on: Watch what you tweet, you might get sued. http://forbesavenue.com/2009/07/31/watch-what-you-tweet-you-might-get-sued/ We do culture. Everything you want to know...about every thing. Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:15:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: griffn http://forbesavenue.com/2009/07/31/watch-what-you-tweet-you-might-get-sued/comment-page-1/#comment-91 griffn Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:11:34 +0000 http://forbesavenue.com/?p=494#comment-91 It's gonna take a lot more than the $50,000 they get from this woman to cancel out all the bad publicity they just brought on themselves. And they'll probably end up settling for a lot less than that. This is like the RIAA suing people for downloading MP3s. Not only did it not stop people from downloading music, but now everyone hates the RIAA. L. The question is, will Horizon Group Management have the legal firepower to sue the thousands of people who are now tweeting out defamatory and hilarious messages about their company? Like <a href="http://twitter.com/debbierowe1958/statuses/2944383102" rel="nofollow">this one</a>. BTW, can the woman they're suing hide under a parody defense? Obviously her tweet was meant to be humorous, and satire is protected speech. So... It’s gonna take a lot more than the $50,000 they get from this woman to cancel out all the bad publicity they just brought on themselves. And they’ll probably end up settling for a lot less than that. This is like the RIAA suing people for downloading MP3s. Not only did it not stop people from downloading music, but now everyone hates the RIAA. L.

The question is, will Horizon Group Management have the legal firepower to sue the thousands of people who are now tweeting out defamatory and hilarious messages about their company? Like this one.

BTW, can the woman they’re suing hide under a parody defense? Obviously her tweet was meant to be humorous, and satire is protected speech. So…

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