MySpace Not Guilty in Child Assault Case

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post reports that a Texas judge dismissed a $30 million case against MySpace for their role in a child assault case. 19-year old Peter Solis lied about his age on MySpace to gain the confidence of a 13-year old girl. The judge ruled, 'To impose a duty under these circumstances for MySpace to confirm or determine the age of each applicant, with liability resulting from negligence in performing or not performing duty, would of course stop MySpace's business in its tracks and close this avenue of communication.'" What do you think? Good call?

What do you think? Good call?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yep.

Texas Judges

[Ice Wewe]

Good for MySpace, I'm just surprised he didn't get the death penalty!

Re:Moo

[Karganeth]

Common sense in a courtroom? Now thats an oxymoron.

yes, good call

[AxemRed]

I don't see how it's a company's job to keep people from lying on the internet. If it was, AOL's chat rooms would be in a lot of trouble...

Re:Yep, the only call

[stratjakt]

Actually, I had a thought.

I should file a 30 million dollar suit against slashdot, because someone put up a link that said it was an article about the SCO/IBM lawsuit, but was really a picture of a mans grotesquely distended asshole.

Same thing, really.

I TRUSTED YOU SLASHDOT how could you let this happen.

Re:Yep, the only call

[robbiethefett]

oh, sorry about that, that was actually an artist's rendering of the security in window's vista.

Re:He Lied, She Lied

[robbiethefett]

you mean two ugly, desperate people will go on the internet and lie to each other in a desperate attempt to get sex? now, you've got to be pulling my chain.

What?!? No one's reading emo thoughts?

[Anonymous Coward]

That makes me so sad for all the little emo boys and girls. I think I'll go cry and maybe, you know, cut myself a little.

Re:Yep, the only call

[stimpleton]

"...but was really a picture of a mans grotesquely distended asshole"

Link please.