Legal Info

Sometimes we receives notices from companies, individuals, and their lawyers who claim that false information about them has been posted on this website. These people often threaten to sue phoneowner.org for defamation and other claims unless the statements they do not like are removed.

If you are about to write us a threatening letter or even consider making a trip to your lawyer because you feel that someone posted false or inaccurate information about you or your company, please read this page. WHY SUING phoneowner.org IS A BAD IDEA Suing phoneowner.org and its owners will turn into a waste of your time and money simply because, as an interactive computer service provider, we are not liable for the content posted by the users of the service.

We realize that it might be difficult to understand since the content you do not like appears on our website. But imagine that your computer got a virus from the Internet, so you decide to sue your internet provider because they have allowed the virus to get to your computer via their cable lines. Doesn’t sound right, does it? Your internet provider cannot possibly check and guarantee safety of every file you download. They are service providers, and the author of the virus is the one at fault.

phoneowner.org is a service provider just like your internet company. We cannot possibly monitor the accuracy of the huge volume of information that our users may choose to post and are not liable for the content we do not post.

This immunity is granted by the federal law called the Communications Decency Act or “CDA”, 47 U.S.C. § 230, which says that “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”

Because the content on phoneowner.org is authored by users of the site, we cannot be legally regarded as the “publisher or speaker” of the postings contained here, and hence we are not liable for the statements that others have written even if they contain false or inaccurate information.