A company provides a free online service that allows users to post text within a set format, and removes any content they find that violates several rules including content that is considered derogatory to specific groups or individuals. They then state that a post can be considered derogatory when refering to a group defined by race but exactly the same post is not derogatory when refering to group defined by disability. The company also perminantly banned a user from a portion of the site for posting a statement deemed derogatory, while maintaining that an identical statement about a disability group is not considered derogatory, and continues to uphold the ban on the grounds that the user took an acceptable statement and intentionally altered it until it became derogatory. Is this a violation of the ADA?
Note: if you're planning to respond that the ADA only applies to employment, you're wrong, and should consider actually reading the Act before answering.
2007-06-19 10:46:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I'm disabled and have some familiarity with it.
You probably do have an actionable claim there. They may claim that they are a private entity and set their own rules, but opening themselves to public use they are held to certain standards. (i.e. they can't open a "public use" board and not let people they know are black sign on.)
2007-06-19 10:56:52 · answer #1 · answered by Atavacron 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-18 01:50:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the surface of your statement, I would say no, it doesn't. But... if some hot-shot lawyer comes along and gets a case against what you mention, and gets some activist judge to agree with him, then the company is screwed.
There are actually scam artists some of which have lawyers on their 'team', who will come into public places and businesses and find one small thing (example: the bathroom railing in the handicap stall is 1/4" too low -- by the standard set forth in the ADA) and they will file a lawsuit against the business, forcing the business to settle for amounts which bankrupt the business.
Your example might be subject to something like this, where a judges interpretation is all that is needed to get a lawsuit going.
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2007-06-19 10:55:50 · answer #3 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
In What context and how exactly was the group identified .I can`t answer without knowing the full details .You spent a lot of energy to ask a very simple question .
2007-06-19 11:00:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No computer in the world tells you what to do. You tell it what to do. Just tell yours not to voluntarily go to a website that offends you.
We as a society need to start taking personal responsibility!!!!!
If you don't like a TV, radio, website....change the #@*&%^# channel..
GROW UP!
2007-06-27 01:46:28 · answer #5 · answered by hill5997 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Could be but do you dare mention the company on its own site.
2007-06-19 10:49:49 · answer #6 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
SUE! SUE! SUE!
Yes, let's fill the lawyers pockets!
2007-06-19 10:51:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
no...stop looking for something to sue somebody over.....the country is in bad enough shape
2007-06-19 10:50:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
yep
2007-06-19 10:50:30 · answer #9 · answered by plhudson01 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no
2007-06-19 10:49:00 · answer #10 · answered by 007 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋