<p>“Is CC legally responsible for all the libel that gets posted 100 times a day on the election and politics forum? No, and this should be no different.”</p>
<p>It’s very hard to libel a public figure.</p>
<p>CC would be liable for libel if, for instance, I posted my kid’s teacher’s name and said that the teacher was having sex with their students, and that statement wasn’t provably true. I’d be liable, too.</p>