Legal Question in Technology Law in California
My husband and I recently separated. I have come across a social running group that he has joined. The problem is the running club associates each member with a name. Each name is sexual and is suppose to be a joke. The running club produces a public weekly newsletter with photos that are at best x-rated and sexest. The website is public and comes without any type of warning. How do I have the website shut down. My main worry is that their weekly newsletter will fall into the hands of children and forever impair their lives. The name of the group is the Long Beach Hash Harriers see for yourself.
1 Answer from Attorneys
I looked as the site as you suggested. I wasn't thorough, but I looked at several newsletters and photo pages. Most of the photos I saw were perfectly innocent. Some were in poor taste, but none remotely qualified as x-rated. The text is risque, but that's not so unusual in this day and age. Whether some of the content is sexist is a matter of opinion, but it doesn't matter either way. There's no law against sexist content.
It would take a lot more than a visit to this website to "forever impair" the lives of children. The internet is full of websites that go much, much further. The fact that your ex is involved in the group that runs this particular site doesn't give you any special rights to take action against it.
Your desire to "have the website shut down" may have more to do with anger at your ex than with the site's content. I'm afraid the owners' First Amendment rights trump your personal feelings. That's how it should be. The government isn't entitled to censor the group's speech, and neither are you.