What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Missouri
I am a website designer and I had a client with whom I recently terminated the account after I learned they were involved in unethical practices. Their market is loosely supervised and so I made a website that told about their business practices and took the website off of the server. I did this as an independent contractor with no conditions of their ownership of the website, its content or that I had to leave it online for any period of time, so I'm not worried about that.
I'm not really worried, more curious about what could happen to me for publishing a website that explained to the public basically what they were doing and why I believe potential clients of theirs should search elsewhere to do business.
Everything that I published is 100% truth and I provide perfectly logical explanations of how their business could not possibly operate ethically. I'm fairly certain that if a libel/defamation case were to be brought against me, the only thing they could do is sue me for whatever money they can prove they've lost as a result and/or to have me ordered to remove or retract anything I've published. If that's all they can do, then I would rather publish it and be sure that people know that they should not do business with this place.
If I post more content that is all true, would that lower the risk of a suit? Everything I want to publish is all truth and I can prove it. So if they find one minor thing that I cannot prove, would it mean that the one minor thing is less significant since there's even more that is proven?
A very strange moral predicament I've found myself in. But I just believe very strongly that this place should not be doing business in such an unethical and even inhumane way. And as I said, there's really nobody that I can report them to in order to stop them, I cannot call the police since it wouldn't even be a civil matter, I cannot call anybody to stop them; I can only remove their website and publish my reasons why I believe people should not do business.
Very strange indeed. Thank you.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
I am a website designer and I had a client with whom I recently terminated the account after I learned they were involved in unethical practices. Their market is loosely supervised and so I made a website that told about their business practices and took the website off of the server. I did this as an independent contractor with no conditions of their ownership of the website, its content or that I had to leave it online for any period of time, so I'm not worried about that.
I'm not really worried, more curious about what could happen to me for publishing a website that explained to the public basically what they were doing and why I believe potential clients of theirs should search elsewhere to do business.
Everything that I published is 100% truth and I provide perfectly logical explanations of how their business could not possibly operate ethically. I'm fairly certain that if a libel/defamation case were to be brought against me, the only thing they could do is sue me for whatever money they can prove they've lost as a result and/or to have me ordered to remove or retract anything I've published. If that's all they can do, then I would rather publish it and be sure that people know that they should not do business with this place.
If I post more content that is all true, would that lower the risk of a suit? Everything I want to publish is all truth and I can prove it. So if they find one minor thing that I cannot prove, would it mean that the one minor thing is less significant since there's even more that is proven?
A very strange moral predicament I've found myself in. But I just believe very strongly that this place should not be doing business in such an unethical and even inhumane way. And as I said, there's really nobody that I can report them to in order to stop them, I cannot call the police since it wouldn't even be a civil matter, I cannot call anybody to stop them; I can only remove their website and publish my reasons why I believe people should not do business.
Very strange indeed. Thank you.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?