re: What is TDs liability for posts?

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Richie acts as an editor of all content posted on the website and often modifies or adds his own comments

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This is significant and makes that case distingusihable from the more 'normal' CDA cases cited in that Wiki link.

The owner of the website editing and adding his own comments is significant because he is not acting as a neutral conduit of info posted by others but is rather actively engaging in whatever discussion. He's getting away from the neutral conduit and going more towards the active poster of information/opinions/defamatory statements, etc.

It'd be like Chicken himself posting defamatory stuff and then trying to hide behind the CDA. The CDA is designed to shield websites from liabiltiy solely because they were the medium by which the defamatory content was transmitted. It's not a blanket shield for you to be an a-hole if you just so happen to also own the website.