Do you consider this board as "Social Media"?

[fairgambit]

L

https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/H041713.PDF

"Here, the term “social media,” although not mathematically precise, has a reasonably certain definition: Web sites where users are able to share and generate content, and find and connect with other users of common interests."

Any ambiguities with the term deal with much more tenuous (to say the least) examples, like banking accounts. Message boards like this one clearly fit the commonly accepted definition.

That is not the case I was thinking of. That aside, this is an uncertified opinion from a California state court and, by its own wording (in bold at top), cannot be used as precedent, even in California. Still, I applaud your efforts. Yesterday I said I would spend no more time in this thread and yet here I am. Ok, this time I must absolutely move on. For real. I hope.

 

[Tom_PSU]

Of course you are correct. I knew it was Stewart, in Jacobellis, which I remember from law school. I have no idea why I said Rehnquist. Mea culpa.

Yeah just like the people who buy your overpriced junk. They have no idea why they thought the thing would work.

 

[Moogy]

L

That is not the case I was thinking of. That aside, this is an uncertified opinion from a California state court and, by its own wording (in bold at top), cannot be used as precedent, even in California. Still, I applaud your efforts. Yesterday I said I would spend no more time in this thread and yet here I am. Ok, this time I must absolutely move on. For real. I hope.

I'm not trying a case here. It's still extremely instructive in how the legal system views "social media." And illustrating that any line to be drawn, in determining what is and is not "social media," doesn't cut anywhere close to excluding a message board like the one we're utilizing here.

Social Media Definition: 1k Samples | Law Insider

Sample Contracts and Business Agreements

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Social Media includes all means of communicating or posting information or content of any sort on the Internet, including to your own or someone else’s web log or blog, journal or diary, personal web site, social networking or affinity web site, web bulletin board or a chat room, whether or not associated or affiliated with the Town, as well as any other form of electronic communication.

And, no, I don't care if Alito would base his decision on the above definition.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/232841668.pdf

§ 1.01 DEFINING SOCIAL MEDIA A. SOCIAL MEDIA IS ABOUT CONVERSATIONS In order to discuss social media we must first define it. Many believe that social media is limited to the large social platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln, and the like. The truth is that social media is far larger. These sites are social networking platforms and merely one part of social media. Black's Law Dictionary defines social media as "Any cell phone or internet based tools and applications that are used to share and distribute information." At first glance this definition would appear to include any information connected to the Internet since distribution is the primary reason for putting information · online. But there is one additional element that makes information, services, and sites fall under the umbrella of social media: conversation. The social in social media is the ability for communities to be formed and individuals to exchange content around the information that is posted. Conversation is the seed that has transformed the Internet and the World Wide Web into social media.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

Do you have a plane? 1 may work on his license this year.

 

[wbcbus]

Of course you are correct. I knew it was Stewart, in Jacobellis, which I remember from law school. I have no idea why I said Rehnquist. Mea culpa.

I figured you knew and it was inadvertent. Now you know I knew you knew, so no need for self-flagellation!

I visit the Potter Stewart courthouse from time to time, so I'm frequently reminded.

 

[fairgambit]

I figured you knew and it was inadvertent. Now you know I knew you knew, so no need for self-flagellation!

I visit the Potter Stewart courthouse from time to time, so I'm frequently reminded.

Thanks for graciously letting me off the hook.

 

[91Joe95]

Aside from getting asked about houses, vehicles and toys (planes, boats, motorcycles etc) apparently social media participation is considered an emerging underwriting risk.

What a country.

 

[Nits1989]

Good conversation with many different and compelling arguments on both sides.

The person(s) who asked me last week about social media participation were insurance underwriters when I was calling around for personal liability umbrella policy quotes.

Aside from getting asked about houses, vehicles and toys (planes, boats, motorcycles etc) apparently social media participation is considered an emerging underwriting risk.

Wow!

 

[Night Raven]

The old Test Board was anti-social media!

After reading all the posts on Franklin, his salary, people in the athletic department being let go, NIL, etc., etc., I would tend to say that this Board is also often more "Asocial Media" than "Social Media".

 

[Night Raven]

Good conversation with many different and compelling arguments on both sides.

The person(s) who asked me last week about social media participation were insurance underwriters when I was calling around for personal liability umbrella policy quotes.

Aside from getting asked about houses, vehicles and toys (planes, boats, motorcycles etc) apparently social media participation is considered an emerging underwriting risk.

Like marriage ?

 

[republion]

This message board is to social media what soap operas are to hardcore porn.
The former of each barely dips its toes in the water and the latter is drowning in raw sewage.

 

[Fizz1]

Yes.