Last week we received a letter from Thomas Georgianna, mynutritionstore's lawyer, in which he demanded the removal of unfavorable postings to avoid a costly lawsuit against 800Notes.com.
Apparently, our user received a call from the company and reported a bad experience. A few more consumers expressed their dissatisfaction. Although, the positive comments in the thread outnumber the negative ones, we have discovered that many of the “positive” responses appear to be posted by mynutritionstore itself.
When we replied that 800Notes.com cannot be held legally responsible for the posted material (such protection is provided by the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act), Thomas Georgianna responded that in this case if we don't remove the postings they will sue the owners of 800Notes. He apparently hoped that the threat of expenses involved would drive us to comply with his demands.
In response to the threat Paul Alan Levy, a Public Citizen attorney, sent an open letter to Thomas Georgianna where he outlined the many reasons why this theory of forcing the website to shut down by increasing its legal expenses will not work.
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