Re: message board entrance by password/liabilities?

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On 10/03/02, jessica wrote:
> I am part of a condominium homeowner association. To gain
> entrance to our homeowner website, you must use a password.
> Firt, we were allowed to post anonomously...then the
> President removed anonomous postngs and said you must use
> your unit#. Then we posted to the message board using our
> condo unit #. Because of the nature of the postings
> (postings were made defying the President's statements of
> facts),the Board of directors has just removed
> this "message board" saying that it leaves the homeowner
> assoc. open for potential liability lawsuits e.g. slander.
> Does anyone know the laws for this...we would like to
> reinstate the message board...can we? Please help explain
> why we cannot since it is a guarded password community.
> Thank you

The First Amendment only regards the government - since your
homeowners' association is private, the First Amendment will
not apply.

Re: message board entrance by password/liabilities?, 10/03/02, by btr.

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