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Check the comments to the article. It appears that the commentators are RT first, ask questions later - Questions like, "well was the apartment actually moldy?"

Check the comments to the article. It appears that the commentators are RT first, ask questions later - Questions like, "well was the apartment actually moldy?" Has twitter forgotten #Savejon? I'm not saying sue first, ask questions later is the right response, but the company may be in the right to defend itself.

lutorm 17y ago
Noone actually claimed there was mold in any apartment. Just that the company thought it was ok to sleep in one that had mold.
- potatolicious 17y ago
  Which makes this a legitimate libel case - the woman was in no way qualified to make comments on company policy. If she said something like "Horizon is making me sleep in a moldy apartment" she'd be in the clear, but now she is speaking on behalf of the company, which is unjustified. I also will hold off on bashing the company here just yet until we have the whole story. Wasn't it, like, yesterday when we found out the internet went berserk over censorship that turned out to be nothing?
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    oh please. Only in the USA would a company sue over something this silly. Anywhere else they'd be laughed out of court and their lawyers would get slapped with a fine. Until they made an issue out of it nobody had even heard from her, about them or about their policies, now they have a disaster on their hands. This is simple abuse of the court.
    - dkokelley 17y ago
      This is simple abuse of the court. Do we know this? All we know is 1 tweet and a couple of quotes (possibly) taken out of context. Was there a history of tweets by this woman regarding Horizon? Sure, she only had 20-something followers, but her message was publicly available. This could actually be an interesting precedent-setting case for how courts define tweets. Is it comparable to a newspaper article, or a conversation between parties? I wouldn't be so quick to judge the company or the woman in question. Something else to consider: Who told the media about the lawsuit?
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        Sure, because $50,000 sounds like a reasonable number to come up with when somebody tells their friends that you expect them to sleep in a moldy apartment. These people need to lighten up a bit, it's a tempest in a teacup and a total waste of time and energy.
- anigbrowl 17y ago
  It'd be interesting to know if she was shown a moldy apartment and declined to rent it (in which case it becomes a he-said-she-said deal), or if she was already renting one and has documentary evidence of mold and unserviced requests to remove it, in which case Horizon Realty is toast.

lutorm 17y ago

Noone actually claimed there was mold in any apartment. Just that the company thought it was ok to sleep in one that had mold.

potatolicious 17y ago
Which makes this a legitimate libel case - the woman was in no way qualified to make comments on company policy. If she said something like "Horizon is making me sleep in a moldy apartment" she'd be in the clear, but now she is speaking on behalf of the company, which is unjustified. I also will hold off on bashing the company here just yet until we have the whole story. Wasn't it, like, yesterday when we found out the internet went berserk over censorship that turned out to be nothing?
- jacquesm 17y ago
  oh please. Only in the USA would a company sue over something this silly. Anywhere else they'd be laughed out of court and their lawyers would get slapped with a fine. Until they made an issue out of it nobody had even heard from her, about them or about their policies, now they have a disaster on their hands. This is simple abuse of the court.
  - dkokelley 17y ago
    This is simple abuse of the court. Do we know this? All we know is 1 tweet and a couple of quotes (possibly) taken out of context. Was there a history of tweets by this woman regarding Horizon? Sure, she only had 20-something followers, but her message was publicly available. This could actually be an interesting precedent-setting case for how courts define tweets. Is it comparable to a newspaper article, or a conversation between parties? I wouldn't be so quick to judge the company or the woman in question. Something else to consider: Who told the media about the lawsuit?
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      Sure, because $50,000 sounds like a reasonable number to come up with when somebody tells their friends that you expect them to sleep in a moldy apartment. These people need to lighten up a bit, it's a tempest in a teacup and a total waste of time and energy.
anigbrowl 17y ago
It'd be interesting to know if she was shown a moldy apartment and declined to rent it (in which case it becomes a he-said-she-said deal), or if she was already renting one and has documentary evidence of mold and unserviced requests to remove it, in which case Horizon Realty is toast.